U.S. government agencies are making significant progress in their ongoing campaign to streamline rules governing exports, but significant work remains in the effort to create a unified list of items vital to national security and a single agency with authority to oversee the export control process, a panel of witnesses said April 24 during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. "The Department of Defense strongly supports continued reform and efforts to establish a single control list and a single agency," said James Hursch, director of the Pentagon's Defense Technology Security Administration. "Our national security will not be served if we stop halfway."
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