Aerospace Industries Association
Export Controls Summary
Export controls are the means by which the United States government manages the sale or transfer of sensitive goods and technology, services and know-how to non-U.S. citizens in a manner consistent with the nation’s security interests, foreign policy goals and international obligations.
The members of AIA have long supported a rigorous export control system that keeps our most advanced technologies out of the hands of our adversaries and rivals. At the same time, it is imperative that this system also operates in a predictable, efficient and transparent manner to facilitate technology trade and cooperation in the interests of U.S. national and economic security.
In recent years, the system’s inadequacies have compromised the aerospace industry’s ability to support the nation’s security and economic interests, increased costs and risk in military programs and frustrated our military and commercial relationships with our allies and partners.
AIA and a number of partner associations developed a set of recommendations to improve licensing for defense and “dual-use” (civil and military use) exports, and launched the Coalition for Security and Competitiveness in March 2007. On January 22, 2008, the Bush Administration issued a series of export control process modernization directives that borrowed from the Coalition’s recommendations.
In August 2009 the Obama Administration announced a more comprehensive examination of the current export control system. AIA is encouraged by the importance the White House is placing on this review, and looks forward to working with the Administration to obtain greater system improvements and policy reforms in the interests of America’s warfighters, allies, taxpayers and aerospace workers.
