US export control
Apr. 20th, 2012 02:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izardCoCom was abolished in 1994 after collapse of the Eastern Block, but something new emerged instead.
Among US government agencies that regulate industry, there is one that imposes export control on so called "controlled technologies". Those comprise of high tech know-how that can be used to design modern weapons.
Easy to see what US bureaucrats think is high tech applicable to weapon designs:
- Radiation-hardened microelectronic circuits.
- microprocessor development technology.
-supercomputing - cooling, interconnect,etc
- high speed communication – laser, ultra high frequency radio.
- solar arrays and/or solar panels, with a minimum average efficiency of 31% or greater
- microwave power amplifiers
- cryptography and security
etc,etc,etc
Interestingly enough, the published scientific research on that topics is fine, what counts are real products and privately funded R&D. It is also interesting that there are different levels of country's credibility: e.g. Israel is ally of US, but not all technologies are allowed to be transferred e.g. HPC is not.
A very large set of activities could be interpreted as technology transfer: e.g. just a chat between someone who is working on a controlled technology with a national of controlled country. However if that national of controlled country acquired permanent residence of US (green card) it becomes fine. Permanent residence of many countries like Australia, UK, Germany, is treated the same way. This looks silly because I don't get what happens to a KGB spy when he acquires e.g. a permanent residence of Canada. Oh wait but there is no KGB any more? Who cares!
Disclaimer: As I believe everything I read in internet, all data above is from public sources.
Among US government agencies that regulate industry, there is one that imposes export control on so called "controlled technologies". Those comprise of high tech know-how that can be used to design modern weapons.
Easy to see what US bureaucrats think is high tech applicable to weapon designs:
- Radiation-hardened microelectronic circuits.
- microprocessor development technology.
-supercomputing - cooling, interconnect,etc
- high speed communication – laser, ultra high frequency radio.
- solar arrays and/or solar panels, with a minimum average efficiency of 31% or greater
- microwave power amplifiers
- cryptography and security
etc,etc,etc
Interestingly enough, the published scientific research on that topics is fine, what counts are real products and privately funded R&D. It is also interesting that there are different levels of country's credibility: e.g. Israel is ally of US, but not all technologies are allowed to be transferred e.g. HPC is not.
A very large set of activities could be interpreted as technology transfer: e.g. just a chat between someone who is working on a controlled technology with a national of controlled country. However if that national of controlled country acquired permanent residence of US (green card) it becomes fine. Permanent residence of many countries like Australia, UK, Germany, is treated the same way. This looks silly because I don't get what happens to a KGB spy when he acquires e.g. a permanent residence of Canada. Oh wait but there is no KGB any more? Who cares!
Disclaimer: As I believe everything I read in internet, all data above is from public sources.
