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Science 22 September 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5794, p. 1717
DOI: 10.1126/science.313.5794.1717c
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The U.S. Commerce Department has asked a panel of experts to examine whether policies on limiting access to sensitive information and technologies should be reviewed. The move comes a year after the department proposed tougher rules on so-called deemed exports; universities and companies argued that the regime would hinder research. That proposal was shelved in May (Science, 19 May, p. 985).

The 12-member panel will be headed by Norman Augustine, the former Lockheed Martin head, and Robert Gates, current president of Texas A&M University. Both served on a National Academies committee on national competitiveness that last year called for relaxing deemed-export rules.




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