MAY 24, 2000
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D I A A D V I S O R Y
(Washington, DC) - Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
Chairman Fred Thompson (R-TN) and Ranking Member Joseph
Lieberman (D-CT) announced today that there will be a Full
Committee hearing on "Export Control Implementation
Issues with respect to High Performance Computers."
Friday, May 26, 2000
10:00am
342 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Industry officials and some in Congress have argued that
high-performance computers - and other items subject to national
security export controls in order to keep them out of the hands
of potential adversaries, problem proliferators, and terrorists
- should be freely exportable without a license if they meet the
criteria of so-called "foreign availability" or
"mass market" status. Others, however, worry that
these concepts are vague, subjective, and subject to abuse - and
that institutionalizing such rules would harm national security
by requiring the wholesale decontrol of many sensitive
technologies. This hearing will examine these issues and assess
the national security and commercial issues that underlie this
debate.
Witness
Panel
Dan Hoydysh, Co-Chair of the Computer
Coalition for Responsible Exports
Harold J. Johnson, Associate Director for
International Relations and Trade Issues, National Security and
International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office
Robert Lieberman, Assistant Inspector
General for Auditing, Office of the Inspector General, U.S.
Department of Defense
Gary Milhollin, Director of the Wisconsin
Project on Nuclear Arms Control
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