By National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, Security, and Cooperation Development, Committee on Scientific Communication and National Security, Security, and Prosperity Committee on Science
The nationwide safeguard controls that keep an eye on entry to and export of technological know-how and expertise are damaged. As at the moment dependent, lots of those controls undermine our nationwide and place of birth defense and stifle American engagement within the international economic system, and in technological know-how and know-how. those unintentional outcomes come up from guidelines that have been crafted for an prior period. within the identify of preserving superiority, the U.S. now runs the chance of changing into much less safe, much less aggressive and not more prosperous.
Beyond "Fortress America" presents an account of the prices linked to construction partitions that abate our entry to worldwide technology and know-how that hose down our financial capability. The ebook additionally makes options to reform the export keep watch over technique, be sure medical and technological competitiveness, and increase the non-immigrant visa method that regulates access into the USA of international technological know-how and engineering scholars, students, and professionals.
Beyond "Fortress America" comprises very important details and motion goods for the President and coverage makers that might have an effect on the U.S.' skill to compete globally. parties--including army body of workers, engineers, scientists, execs, industrialists, and scholars--will locate this ebook a priceless instrument for stemming a significant decline affecting extensive parts of the nation's safeguard and economy.
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As a result, the United States achieved the leadership position in many areas of science and technology. These efforts were unprecedented in scope and in the resources (both human and financial) dedicated to their implementation. To counter this threat, the United States crafted a system of policies and regulations designed to limit the flow of technology to the Soviet Union and its allies. This system included classification, export controls, deemed export controls, restrictions on the dissemination of government-funded research, and limitations on visa and visitation privileges by those who could collect advanced scientific and technological knowledge within the United States.
S. S. awareness of the characteristics of their systems, which might otherwise be just as capable but less well understood. mil/ip/. 14In 1999, commercial satellites were reclassified by Congress from being controlled by the Commerce Department as a dual-use item to being controlled by the State Department as munitions under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. Alcatel Space (now Thales) then announced in 2002 its company policy to build ITAR-free satellites, launching its first ITAR-free satellite successfully in 2005.
40-48 (National Academies Press), and The DEAC Report, pp. 35-46 (Deemed Export Advisory Committee, Department of Commerce). 28 BEYOND “FORTRESS AMERICA” eries may be hindered, or may simply occur elsewhere. The rapid and dynamic nature of leading-edge fundamental research makes it almost impossible to predict with any precision the disciplines in which a researcher will work, the colleagues or laboratories with whom he or she will collaborate, the equipment needed, and the possible modifications that may have to be made to that equipment.
