The Coalition for Security and Competitiveness, a consortium of business groups lobbying the administration on export issues, yesterday hailed a recent government report taking the nation's arms export process to task. According to the Government Accountability Office report released late last week, the State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) is stressed because of a dramatic increase in export licenses between 2003 and 2006. GAO recommended that the DDTC analyze how to deal with some of the systemic problems…
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