Pentagon Reviewing Impact of Export Controls on U.S. Space Industry

By Jason Sherman / October 2, 2006 at 5:00 AM
An influential Pentagon advisory board is reviewing the efficacy of export control policies that industry experts say are debilitating a key part of the U.S. space industrial base -- second- and third-tier suppliers. The expert control policies under review were established in the wake of concerns that China benefited militarily from commercial space launches in the 1990s involving U.S. firms. Kenneth Krieg, the Pentagon's acquisition executive, last week directed the Defense Science Board to form a task force to "recommend,...

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