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2000 CIS S 40135

TITLE: Export Control Implementation Issues with Respect to High-Performance Computers

CIS-NO: 2000-S401-35
SOURCE: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Senate
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 106-596
DATE: May 26, 2000
LENGTH: iii+124 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-2
ITEM-NO: 1037-B; 1037-C
SUDOC: Y4.G74/9:S.HRG.106-596
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2000-17378
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477 (Full Text Reproductions)

SUMMARY:
Hearing to review Administration policy on export of high performance computers with potential military or nuclear applications.

Considers S. 1712, the Export Administration Act of 1999, to relax export controls on items meeting specified mass market status and foreign availability status criteria.

Supplementary material (p. 39-124) includes witnesses' written statements and written replies to Committee questions and correspondence.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Computers with military or nuclear applications, export control policy review

BILLS: 106 S. 1712

DESCRIPTORS:
    COMPUTERS; NATIONAL DEFENSE; EXPORT CONTROLS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT

00-S401-35 TESTIMONY NO: 1     May 26, 2000 p. 4-37, 40-124

WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   JOHNSON, HAROLD J., JR. (Associate Director, International Relations and Trade Issues, National Security and International Affairs Division, GAO)
   LIEBERMAN, ROBERT J. (Assistant Inspector General, Auditing, Office of the Inspector General, DOD)
   MILHOLLIN, GARY (Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control)
   HOYDYSH, DAN (Director, Trade, Public Policy, and Government Affairs, Unisys Corp.; representing Computer Coalition for Responsible Exports)

STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Assessment of executive branch capabilities in assessing and responding to national security risks associated with high performance computer exports; explanation of DOD licensing process for military sensitive, dual-use technologies; differing views on S. 1712 and U.S. computer export control policies.

INSERTION:
   -- Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, "25 Myths about Export Control" Mar. 1994 (p. 88-98).

CONTENT NOTATION:
   Computers with military or nuclear applications, export control policy review

TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   WISCONSIN PROJECT ON NUCLEAR ARMS CONTROL; GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE; OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL, DOD; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; LICENSES

LOAD-DATE: July 6, 2001