Critical Technology Assessments
Abstract
Critical Technology Assessments provide the technical reference guidance in support of development and implementation of DoD technology security policies on international transfers of defense related goods, services, and technologies. The export control program provides an ongoing assessment and analysis of global goods and technologies. Determines significant advances in the development, production, and use of military capabilities by potential adversaries. Determines goods and technologies being developed worldwide with potential to significantly enhance or degrade U.S. military capabilities in the future. Identified in the Export Administration Act of 1979 and extended by Presidential Executive Order to review militarily critical goods and technologies and to consider worldwide technology capabilities. The Militarily Critical Technologies List (MCTL) is a congressionally mandated source document for identification of leading edge and current technologies monitored worldwide for national security, nonproliferation control of weapons of mass destruction, and advanced conventional weapons. The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OASD(R&E)) sponsored a study to investigate the desirability of changing the export-control-based purpose of the critical technology assessment program to a broader purpose that would support the broader OASD(R&E) mission. The study has reported out, recommending a more rigorous examination of information sources, best practices, and tools, to definitively determining the achievable benefits.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- eb1a7d7e594ffd6880f62ac314c4a131