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Commerce Dept. Gearing Up To Process Technologies Coming Off U.S. Munitions List

Thursday, February 7th, 2013

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The Commerce Department is standing up a team to process the licensing glut of new technologies coming over from the State Department’s strict U.S. Munitions List, according to sources. The fiscal year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, which President Barack Obama signed into law Jan. 2, relaxed stringent export control laws by returning to the president the authority to determine appropriate requirements after years of military-level oversight. The NDAA allows satellite components and related items pushed to the stricter U.S.…

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