The United States has a responsibility, or so the State Department tells us, to ensure the sales and exports of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) are consistent with U.S. national security interests, U.S. policy, and even U.S. values. While the government would be glad to keep the export of military drones in lock-step with our policy goals, the realities of a rapidly expanding UAS market and global competition has forced export regulators to consider how to balance the potential loss of economic opportunity against the loss of control of UAS technology.
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Military Electronics Export Reform: Let the Chips Fall Where They May
Every time there is a new round of reforms under the President’s Export Control Reform initiative, we hear the same advice:
- Controls on certain items are eliminated or reduced (which creates new opportunities for manufacturers and exporters); but
- The new rules bring new complexities, so be careful.
Attorneys in the export control space correspondingly inundate us with articles advising, in effect, call your export control lawyer.Continue Reading Military Electronics Export Reform: Let the Chips Fall Where They May