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[CITE: 10USC2517]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
 CHAPTER 148--NATIONAL DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL BASE, DEFENSE 
                  REINVESTMENT, AND DEFENSE CONVERSION
 
 SUBCHAPTER III--PROGRAMS FOR DEVELOPMENT, APPLICATION, AND SUPPORT OF 
                          DUAL-USE TECHNOLOGIES
 
Sec. 2517. Office for Foreign Defense Critical Technology 
        Monitoring and Assessment
        
    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall establish within the 
Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering an office 
known as the ``Office for Foreign Defense Critical Technology Monitoring 
and Assessment'' (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 
``Office'').
    (b) Relationship to Department of Commerce.--The head of the Office 
shall consult closely with appropriate officials of the Department of 
Commerce in order--
        (1) to minimize the duplication of any effort of the Department 
    of Commerce by the Department of Defense regarding the monitoring of 
    foreign activities related to defense critical technologies that 
    have potential commercial uses; and
        (2) to ensure that the Office is effectively utilized to 
    disseminate information to users of such information within the 
    Federal Government.

    (c) Responsibilities.--The Office shall have the following 
responsibilities:
        (1) To maintain within the Department of Defense a central 
    library for the compilation and appropriate dissemination of 
    unclassified and classified information and assessments regarding 
    significant foreign activities in research, development, and 
    applications of defense critical technologies.
        (2) To establish and maintain--
            (A) a widely accessible unclassified data base of 
        information and assessments regarding foreign science and 
        technology activities that involve defense critical 
        technologies, including, especially, activities in Europe and in 
        Pacific Rim countries; and
            (B) a classified data base of information and assessments 
        regarding such activities.

        (3) To perform liaison activities among the military 
    departments, Defense Agencies, and other appropriate elements of the 
    Department of Defense, with appropriate agencies and offices of the 
    Department of Commerce and the Department of State, and with other 
    departments and agencies of the Federal Government in order to 
    ensure that significant activities in research, development, and 
    applications of defense critical technologies are identified, 
    monitored, and assessed by an appropriate department or agency of 
    the Federal Government.
        (4) To ensure the maximum practicable public availability of 
    information and assessments contained in the unclassified data bases 
    established pursuant to paragraph (2)--
            (A) by limiting, to the maximum practicable extent, 
        restrictive classification of such information and assessments; 
        and
            (B) by disseminating to the National Technical Information 
        Service of the Department of Commerce information and 
        assessments regarding defense critical technologies having 
        potential commercial uses.

        (5) To disseminate through the National Technical Information 
    Service of the Department of Commerce unclassified information and 
    assessments regarding defense critical technologies having potential 
    commercial uses so that such information and assessments may be 
    further disseminated within the Federal Government and to the 
    private sector.

(Added Pub. L. 102-190, div. A, title VIII, Sec. 821(a), Dec. 5, 1991, 
105 Stat. 1430, Sec. 2525; renumbered Sec. 2517 and amended Pub. L. 102-
484, div. D, title XLII, Sec. 4227, Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2685.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 2517 was renumbered section 2523 of this title and 
subsequently repealed.


                               Amendments

    1992--Pub. L. 102-484 renumbered section 2525 of this title as this 
section and inserted ``Critical'' after ``Foreign Defense'' in subsec. 
(a).
