DTAG Meeting Materials Provide ECR Insight

DDTC has released the minutes and presentations from their busy May 9^th DTAG meeting. You have to sift but there is lots of reform-related information provided. In her introductory remarks, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Beth McCormick, told attendees to expect new Cat.VI, VII, XIII, XV, XX definitions before July. (XV details have already been released.) There were brief reports also regarding the Australian Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty and the U.N Arms Trade Treaty. Formal presentations provided detail on important working groups: Technical Data Harmonization, Fundamental Research, and Cloud Computing. See links below to meeting details:

Plenary Session Minutes (PDF, 4.4MB)

Documents and Presentations:

-Technical Data Harmonization:

• Presentation (PPT, 773KB)
• White Paper (PDF, 456KB)

-Fundamental Research:

• Presentation (PPT, 2.6MB)
• White Paper (PDF, 1.1MB)

-Cloud Computing:

• Presentation (PPT, 1.7MB)
• White Paper (PDF, 975KB)