The Commerce Department has completed a night-vision industrial base review to inform the White House's export-control reform efforts amid calls from industry to permit more foreign sales of U.S. night-vision systems. The "critical technology assessment," dated October, examines night-vision focal plane arrays (FPAs), sensors and cameras. Such reviews assess the impact of export controls on key existing or emerging technologies that are subject to the Commerce Department's export administration regulations. The study -- based on a survey of 45 night-vision...
