Obombya Regime Wants Changes to Arms Export Licensing Process… To Export More Arms
August 1st, 2011Via: Aviation Week:
The Obama administration is proposing to shift tanks, trucks and other military vehicles currently controlled on the U.S. Munitions List (USML) to the less-restrictive U.S. Commerce Control List (CCL) by year’s end as part of a broader effort to reform the U.S. arms export licensing process.
The licensing process governs foreign sales of sensitive U.S. technologies to other countries, including commercial communications satellites. Under a proposed federal rule issued July 15, the Commerce Department would implement a new regulatory framework for the transfer of defense articles that the president determines no longer warrant control under the Arms Export Control Act, which governs the State Department-administered USML.
As a first step, a rewrite of an initial tranche of items — U.S. tanks, trucks and other military vehicles contained within Category VII of the USML — is to be complete by year’s end, according to a senior administration official.
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Marion Blakey, president of the Aerospace Industries Association, welcomed the administration’s proposed changes to the export licensing system.
“Marion Blakey, president of the Aerospace Industries Association, welcomed the administration’s proposed changes to the export licensing system.”
I thought I recognized that name. It’s the revolving door in action – Marion Blakey was the FAA administrator a while back.