{"id":83106,"date":"2012-05-16T00:16:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T16:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nss-backs-potential-munitions-list-alterations-to-itar-laws\/"},"modified":"2012-05-16T00:16:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T16:16:11","slug":"nss-backs-potential-munitions-list-alterations-to-itar-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nss-backs-potential-munitions-list-alterations-to-itar-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"NSS Backs Potential Munitions List Alterations to ITAR Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-15-12] The <b>National Space Society (NSS) <\/b>has called on U.S. Congress to ease export control regulations on spacecraft and related items, as urged by the <b>U.S. Departments of Defense and State<\/b> in a recent joint report, the NSS announced May 14.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;The report, titled \u201cRisk Assessment of the United States Space Export Control Policy,\u201d concluded that spacecraft and components designated as dual-use items can safely be removed from the U.S. Munitions List, which is controlled under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) by the U.S. Department of State.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The report recommends that these items be moved to the Commerce Control List (CCL), which is managed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cFor many years, the U.S. space industrial base has been at a competitive disadvantage with other countries due to outdated and overly burdensome licensing processes under ITAR,\u201d NSS Executive Director Paul Damphousse said in a statement. \u201cThe U.S space export control system has created delays, driven up costs and severely hampered the ability of the American space industry to compete in an increasingly global market, and this situation must not be allowed to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-15-12] The National Space Society (NSS) has called on U.S. Congress to ease export control regulations on spacecraft and related items, as urged by the U.S. Departments of Defense and State in a recent joint report, the NSS announced May 14. &nbsp; &nbsp;The report, titled \u201cRisk Assessment of the United States Space Export Control Policy,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}