Beyond Control: Reforming Export Licensing Agencies for National Security and Economic Interests

Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia

Thursday, April 24, 2008
02:00 PM

[view archive webcast]

In January 2007, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued an update of its High-Risk List, which included U.S. government programs that identify and protect critical weapon and military useful technologies. The GAO report revealed that while each program within the Federal government has its own set of challenges, poor coordination, inefficient operations, and lack of systematic evaluations risked U.S. national security and economic interests.

In light of the ongoing export control system management challenges, the hearing will examine the structure of Federal government agencies that are responsible for licensing controlled exports, the processes in place for licensing, how those structures help or hinder decision making for licenses, human capital challenges of the export control bureaucracy, and recommendations for improving the export control processes and personnel.

Witnesses

Panel 1

• The Honorable Stephen D. Mull [view testimony]
  Acting Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs
  Department of State
• Ms. Beth M. McCormick [view testimony]
  Acting Director
  Defense Technology Security Administration, Department of Defense
• Mr. Matthew S. Borman [view testimony]
  Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce
  Bureau of Industry and Security, Department of Commerce
• Ms. Ann Calvaresi Barr [view testimony]
  Director
  Acquisition and Sourcing Management, Government Accountability Office

Panel 2

• The Honorable William A. Reinsch [view testimony]
  President
  National Foreign Trade Council
• Mr. Daniel B. Poneman [view testimony]
  Principal
  The Scowcroft Group
• Mr. Edmund B. Rice [view testimony]
  President
  Coalition for Employment through Exports, Inc.