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GAO-02-529R 1 (2002-04-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaalyh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 April 8, 2002 The Honorable Claude M. Bolton Jr. Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Subject: Export Control: Army Guidance on Cooperative Research and Development Agreement Compliance with Export Control Laws and Regulations Dear Mr. Secretary: We recently completed a review of cooperative research and development agreements (CRADA) at two Army laboratories: the Army Research Laboratory located at Adelphi, Maryland, and the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases located at Fort Detrick, Maryland.! This work was part of a larger review we undertook at the request of the chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations of the House Committee on Government Reform. We examined a sample of CRADAs at various federal laboratories to determine, among other things, whether federal agencies and laboratories were complying with export control laws when entering into CRADAs. Based on our work at the two Army laboratories, there is a need for the Army to clarify its guidance on technology transfers to ensure compliance with U. S. export control laws during the management review of potential CRADAs. Also, each Army laboratory needs to ensure that the results of such reviews are documented in the CRADA files. Army Regulation 70-57, Military-Civilian Technology Transfer, states that at each laboratory, managers at all levels need to ensure that technology transfer activities do not conflict with export control regulations and policies governing militarily critical technology. However, the regulation is not specific on steps needed to ensure compliance with these regulations and policies. Further, it does not reference 'A cooperative research and development agreement is a written agreement between a federal laboratory and a non-federal partner to conduct specific research development efforts that are consistent with the laboratory's mission. Under such agreements, the non-federal partner agrees to provide funds, personnel, services, facilities, equipment, or other resources needed to conduct a specific research effort while the federal government agrees to provide similar resources but not funds directly to the partner. The Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 authorized government-owned government-operated federal laboratories to enter into such agreements with private industry, and other governmental and educational entities. The National Competitiveness Technology Transfer Act of 1989 extended this authority to government-owned contractor-operated laboratories. GAO-02-529R Export Control

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