PNT Export Controls Need Consideration of Tech Realities, GPSIA Tells Commerce

If there are to be new export controls on position, navigation and timing technology, they should come after detailed talks between the government and commercial enterprises doing R&D, manufacture and distribution of PNT technologies, the GPS Innovation Alliance commented last week in a Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security proceeding on identifying and proposing controls on emerging technologies essential to national security. Those talks need to cover such ground as the extent to which emerging PNT technologies might become public information, the extent to which the PNT industry is doing R&D activities outside the U.S. and whether foreign firms might have developed PNT technologies to the point U.S. export controls would be ineffectual, GPSIA said.