U.S. Monitoring and Dissemination of the Results of Foreign Research. Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Technology and National Security, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress

摘要

The report provides information on the major federal Departments and independent agencies that monitor foreign technology. It also addresses the coordination of monitoring activities, the potential for duplication or gaps in such activity, and the use and dissemination of the information these agencies collect. The General Accounting Office (GAO) identified a total of six Departments and independent agencies that account for much of the current monitoring. Within these agencies, GAO identified 62 federal civilian and military agency offices and divisions that monitor foreign technology. There is no central source identifying all monitoring activity, and coordination among monitoring agencies is limited. This creates the potential both for duplication of monitoring efforts and gaps in monitoring coverage. Federal monitoring produces substantial information that would be beneficial to researchers, program managers, and policymakers in other federal agencies and in private industry.