The Administration, through BXA's DPAS program, helps defense firms diversify their activities into civilian areas by developing and providing detailed economic and statistical information. This helps us develop policies that ensure our industry and technology base are able to support changing security requirements, as well as develop next generation weapon systems. We also continue to work with the Newly Independent States to help them develop effective export control programs. Since 1993, we have delivered 140 bilateral and multilateral workshops in 25 countries. These investigations also included the first civil charges and penalties for alleged unlicensed exports of controlled biotoxins.
Enforcement is a critical partner for exporters.
I urge you to work with our enforcement people when you uncover a suspect transaction. I think that's a significant record of accomplishment, but I would not want anyone to think we are simply wasting these last four months like sand leaking out of a bag. Substantively, more remains to be accomplished. We have just published new regulations revising our high performance computer controls upwards and further liberalizing our encryption controls, but we still need to find a long term solution to HPC and microprocessor controls and do a better job on deemed exports. We must also settle the continuing conflict over licensing jurisdiction between the Commerce and State Departments.