Sensors and Instrumentation Technical Advisory Meeting (SITAC)

MINUTES OF MEETING

January 29, 2013
9:30 a.m., Room 6087B U.S.
Department of Commerce
Bureau of Industry and Security
Washington, DC 20230

• The SITAC meeting was held at the Department of Commerce in Room 6087B from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm. There was a closed session for this meeting.

Open Session:

1. The open session covered the following topics:

1. Welcome and Introductions.

2. Remarks from the Bureau of Industry and Security Management.

3. Industry Presentations.

4. New Business.

Welcome and Introductions.

The SITAC chair, Mr. John Goodrich1 opened the meeting with an introduction of the attendees.

• Members/Contractors of the United States Government (USG) attending this meeting included Dr. Christopher Costanzo (DFO), Patricia Peterson (DTSA), John Varesi (BIS, Engineer), Dr. Greg Tarr (State/ISN, Technical Advisor), James Thompson (DHS, Lead Analyst), Dennis Krepp (BIS, Division Director Sensors and Aviation), John Albert (State/ISN, Foreign Affairs Officer), Jeff Leitz (BIS, Engineer), Tom DeFec (BIS, Engineer) and Matthew Borman (BIS, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Administration).
• A number of companies attended the meeting including Steve Tribble (FLIR Systems), Dr. Stettner (President, Advanced Scientific Concepts), Annalyn Monson (International Trade Manager, Scott Technologies – Tyco Company), Dr. Jon Kane (President, Computer Optics), Dr. Gabor Fulop (President, Maxtech International), Dr. Kanishka Tankala (V.P. Operations, Nufern), Dean Baxevanis (UTC Aerospace Systems, International Trade Manager), George Gasparian (Engineer, GPD Optoelectronics), Doug Malchow (Manager Business
• Development, UTC Aerospace Systems), Mike Conschafter (Manager Gvt Advocacy, ITT Exelis), Scott Johnston (Director Manufacturing, Pressco Technologies), Tom Scott (Of Counsel, Ladner & Asscociates), Bill Root (Consultant, self), Jimmy Wade (Manager Business Development, Sunpower), Dr. Frank Vallese (President, Sofradir EC), Robert Leger (Director Sales, ION Geophysical), Greg Hill (Sr. Director, DRS Technologies), John Baylouny (Chief Technical Officer, DRS), Matthew Schmidt (Director, Fluke Thermography)
• Jim Giacobazzi (GM, Lumasense ITC), Kanishka Tankala (VP Operations, Nufern), Kamil Agi (President, K&A Wireless), Michelle Hinnrichs (CEO, Pacific Advanced Technologies), Steve Black (Chief Engineer, Raytheon), Manjul Shah (Princeton Instruments, Application Specialist), Paul Toumayan (UTC Aerospace Systems, Strategic Business Development), Dave Dozor (Dozor Enterprises, Principal), Sam Gilston (Export Practitioner, Editor).
• Several companies teleconferenced into the meeting including Matthew Jones (Technical Advisor, Intel Corporation), Michelle Hinnrichs (President, Pacific Advanced Technologies).

Remarks from the Bureau of Industry and Security Management:

• Steve Tribble began the meeting with introductions of the attendees.
• Mr. Borman gave an overview of two major regulations otherwise known as the Beast and mini Beast rules. He described the significance of those documents, list of the next steps, and timelines for those steps.
• Mr. Borman commented on the status of the rewrite of the USML Category XII.
• Dr. Christopher Costanzo provided a summary of the Bureau’s licensing statistics for key Category 6 items:
  • FY11 (10/1/12-01/23/13)
  • Total 220 export applications were closed and valued at $56,935,799
• 174 approved, 45 RWA’d, 1 rejected.
• • Average processing time: 34 days.

Top four destinations requesting licenses for dual use infrared cameras were in descending order of value: Suriname ($23M), Switzerland ($11M), Russia Federation ($5.6M), France ($7M), Israel ($4.9M), and Brazil ($4M).

Note: Over the same period in the prior FY, there were a total of 143 export applications closed. Of these 117 were approved, 2 rejected, and 24 rwa’d. The value of the closed applications during this period was $13,860,419.

• Presentations:
  • John Varesi provided a PowerPoint presentation of the Wassenaar Process.
  • Dr. Roger Stettner of ASC provided a presentation titled “Suggested Objective Procedure for ECR USML/CCL List Performance – Parameter Determination”.
• New Business:
  • Review of SITAC 2013 Objectives – not discussed but handouts.

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