Aerospace Industries Association
AIA Leadership Offers Recommendations to Administration Export Control Review
More than 100 chief executive officers and other senior officials from AIA member companies have signed a letter to President Obama thanking him for setting a review of the export control system in motion. The letter was signed by members of the Executive Committee of AIA’s Board of Governors, the Executive Committee of the Supplier Management Council and a significant number of other member companies in an unprecedented show of support encouraging the administration’s interagency review.
“An effective export control system must safeguard critical technologies as well as facilitate collaboration with our closest allies and international partners,” the letter states. “The review you have called for holds the potential to generate significant progress toward that end.”
In addition, AIA has delivered a set of four white papers to the administration in support of the government’s interagency review of U.S. export control policies and practices.
AIA’s white papers deal with improvements to the U.S. Munitions List and the commodity jurisdiction process, caseload management, Defense Department decisionmaking on technology release and treatment of unmanned aircraft systems in the multilateral Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR).
The comprehensive papers offer recommendations that, if implemented, would provide a more predictable, efficient and transparent export control system to strengthen national security and benefit the competitiveness of U.S. aerospace manufacturers.
The papers are the product of broad industry collaboration and identify opportunities for immediate modernization of the export control process.
AIA is pleased that the National Security Council and the National Economic Council are leading the export control review, a sign that the administration recognizes that security and economic strength are critical factors for a more balanced export control system.
As the review process goes on, the association continues organizing meetings between key administration officials and member companies.
The white papers and the letter to President Obama are posted on AIA’s Web site at http://www.aia-aerospace.org/issues_policies/export_control_modernization/.
AIA source: pj.hart[at]aia-aerospace.org
