-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Yesterday's _Huntsville Times_ had an interesting story about a local company's problems with the ITARs. The company, Signature Technologies, makes an EM-absorbent paint called Signaflux, the main application for which is decreasing the radar cross-section of various flying objects. Although so far the primary customers for Signaflux have been from the US DoD, there have been sales to "friendly" foreign governments, notably the Israelis. ST has been trying to diversify; in that vein, they've been selling Signaflux for industrial and commercial applications, like EM shielding in test cells and reducing airport buildings' radar signatures. The dispute in this case comes from a contract to sell Deutsche Aerospace SA about $500,000 worth of Signaflux for the Cyclops cruise missile. ST applied to Commerce for an export license under the dual-use provision. After a CJ determination, State yanked their export license. The story didn't say who requested the CJ determination. I can't imagine that ST would have asked for one, since they had a license already. In closing, the CEO was quoted as saying (paraphrased) "These rules are stupid; I could sell the Germans a fleet of F-16s with dashboards full of avionics, but I can't sell them paint." - -Paul - -- Paul Robichaux, KD4JZG | Demand that your elected reps support the perobich@ingr.com | Constitution, the whole Constitution, and Not speaking for Intergraph. | nothing but the Constitution. ### http://www.intergraph.com ### -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAwUBLpAGjafb4pLe9tolAQF8eAP+K2I9qwXHfZQg8jTVXl3XE5Ymi1ukBhUB t+6DNG9N/Z6VVXdz60WYNW5rpYfHIsb/DjwVYhi8dgScKoesdHpzAgysKQ403ENG IIZH3egeuDBQy0kwl0oL7bLsJTzPnh+jKBH3PEHspmbsjZ4rREfW1KN1EoVN5++5 ofWCod/NQeo= =CnMq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----