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3 Overarching Issues
Pages 13-15

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... And while industry often does include fundamental research as part of its business, its primary goal is to protect and enhance competitive position, including proprietary solutions to government and commercial customer requirements. A problem, some workshop participants observed, is that different stakeholders establish institutional policies, decisions, and protocols in relative isolation and thereby affect the conduct and output of space science.
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From page 14...
... Speakers noted that each licensing decision is based on the merits of a single case and that there is no publically available statement of overall standards that would provide the space science community the insight to make its own determinations as to whether other, potentially comparable cases need to be submitted to the State Department or not. There also appears to be frequent confusion regarding whether an exclusion from ITAR controls applies to both the results of fundamental research and the conduct of fundamental research.
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From page 15...
...  However, a second school of thought among the participants was that ITAR cannot be fixed incrementally and that what is needed instead is a fresh start with a clean-slate approach to develop a regulatory regime that will simultaneously address the full array of policy goals that involve national security, technology transfer, space activities, and university teaching and research. All participants appeared to share the view that such a sweeping, fundamental revision of ITAR is, at best, a long-term prospect.
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