Foreign Technology: Federal Processes for Collection and Dissemination

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on U.S. collection and dissemination of foreign technology information, focusing on: (1) the use of five federal processes in the development of federal critical technologies lists; (2) the use of other sources of information for developing the lists; (3) how the U.S. government can improve federal processes for collecting such information; (4) the disparity in the number of researchers and students exchanged between the United States and Japan; and (5) private-sector collection and dissemination of foreign technology information.