No Easy Choice--NATO Collaboration and the U.S. Arms Export Control Issue

To delineate the extent of the conflict between the U.S. desire for increased NATO collaboration to standardize weapons and the need to maintain control over weapons systems made from U.S. technology, GAO analyzed the trading patterns of the major producers and did case studies of ongoing collaborative weapons projects at the production and development stage; assessed the competitiveness of European producers who get a license to produce U.S. systems to determine if they would be willing to accept restrictive U.S. export controls; and reviewed the handling of third country sales in new co-development programs.