Centralized scans for export licenses.

• Author: Book, Elizabeth G.
• Position: Washington Pulse - Brief Article

Navy officials are proposing to centralize the process of scanning documents that defense contractors submit to the government to obtain an export license. The military services and three other federal agencies have some degree of jurisdiction in the export control approval cycle. Each Defense Department service has elaborate procedures and rule sets for approving or turning down the license applications. As applications come in, documents are scanned into computers. "To a large degree, we are all scanning in the same documents at the same time," said Gibson LeBoeuf, deputy director of the Navy International Programs Office (IPO).

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