Carefully consider whether equipment or software can be adequately protected. Co-production and various exchange agreements potentially offer significant collection opportunities for foreign interests to target restricted technology. Indicators Resident foreign representative faxes documents to an embassy or another country in a foreign language. Foreign representative wants unrestricted access to the facility. Enticing U.S. contractors to provide large amounts of technical data as part of the bidding process , only to have the contract canceled.
Potential technology sharing agreements during the joint venture are one-sided.
The foreign organization sends more foreign representatives than is necessary for the project. The foreign representatives single out company personnel to elicit information outside the scope of the project. Recommended Security Countermeasures Review all documents being faxed or mailed, and have someone to translate when necessary. Provide foreign representatives with stand-alone computers. Educate employees extensively on the scope of the project and how to deal with and report elicitation.