Free and fair competition plays a critical and important role...
Free and fair competition plays a critical and important role in export controls, commercial communications, commercial satellite launches and resolution restrictions, said Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. American business can’t compete effectively “if their hands…
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are tied by unfair and unnecessary regulations,” like International Traffic In Arms Regulations, he said Monday at the Satellite 2012 conference, calling it a “serious threat to our industry.” Achieving ITAR reform is a team effort, he said. Ruppersberger also highlighted the need to drop restrictions on commercial communications satellites as a cost-cutting measure. He also said: “Companies have the capability to take high-resolution images but are prohibited from selling them abroad because of restrictive U.S. policy.” U.S. companies “need to be able to sell our superior technology,” he said. Ruppersberger bemoaned the problem with cyberthreats: An independent hacker or Al-Qaeda could “attack our banking system, our grid system or anything of that nature.”