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GAO Reports on Protecting Export-Controlled Information

  • Export Controls: Agencies Should Assess Vulnerabilities and Improve Guidance for Protecting Export-Controlled Information at Universities, Full-text GAO-07-70, Full-text, and Highlights, December 5, 2006
  • : “Foreign students and scholars have made substantial contributions to U.S. research efforts and technology development. However, according to a federal government intelligence assessment, foreign access to sensitive U.S. technology has imposed a significant but unquantifiable cost to the United States.”

  • Export Controls: Agencies Should Assess Vulnerabilities and Improve Guidance for Protecting Export-Controlled Information at Companies, Full-text GAO-07-69, and Highlights, December 5, 2006: “U.S. government export control agencies, primarily the departments of Commerce and State, have less oversight on exports of controlled information than they do on exports of controlled goods.”
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