LETTER RE SUPPORT FOR PROPOSAL NSC LEAD GOVERNMENT-WIDE EFFOR DENY SOVIET UNION ET AL ACCESS TO SENSITVE SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL INFORMATION THRU NTIS

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• Publication Date: April 3, 1985
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THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
Washington, D.C. 20230
MAR 2 01985
Honorable Caspar Weinberger
Secretary of Defense
Washington, D.C. 20301
Thank you for your letter of March 1, indicating your support for my proposal that
the NSC lead a government-wide effort to deny the Soviet Union and other potential
adversaries access to sensitive scientific and technical information through NTIS.
I do not believe that this can be accomplished by any means short of a special NSC
program, because it is inevitable that new Executive Orders, new national security
directives, new legislation and coordinated Government-wide regulations will be
required.
My staff has followed the DOD legislation on this issue and it is encouraging to
find that Defense has begun to develop a program to control the distribution of
sensitive documents. As I pointed out in my January 16 memorandum, however, there
is serious reason for concern about slippage between legislative authority and
meaningful implementation. While it is true that most of the examples I cited ill
that memorandum were pre-1982 reports or studies, there is no shortage of post-1981
reports and studies that are of great interest to the Soviets. For example, the
NTIS October 84 Tech Data Notes lists dozens of militarily-relevant technology
studies (missile nose cones, armor plating, gun bores, acoustic radar, helicopter
alloys) and high tech studies (microcircuit manufacturing, VLSIC fabrication, IC
software design). The US Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command issued
these reports in 1983 and 1984. (A detailed listing is provided at Attachment A).
We must begin to put teeth into what so far appears to have been mainly a
bureaucratic response. My memorandum to you and other Cabinet officers was
generated after several years of effort to instigate action at lower levels failed.
Soviet attempts to obtain the most advanced production techniques are well
documented. Efforts to gather information on engineering developments and
specifications from reports -- before full-scale production capability -- are of
particular interest to Moscow. Thus, reports disseminated through NTIS, such as
those in Attachment B, are of the highest interest to the USSR, regardless of the
dates published. For example, in the same batch from which we extracted the
reports listed in my January 16 memorandum as well as those listed in Attachment B,
there is a July 1980 report, Engineering Data for New Aerospace Materials, done for
the Air Force Labs at Wright-Patterson by Batelle Columbus Labs. The abstract
indicates that the report describes a program to evaluate newly-developed materials
produced by different processes of interest to the Air Force. This study, while
four years old when available to the USSR, would nonetheless appear to be of
significant interest to the Soviet Air Force at the present time.
I am also separately urging Bud to call an NSC meeting as soon as possible.
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cc: Secretary of State
Attorney General
Secretary of Energy
L-Director, Central Intelligence
Director, Office of Management and Budget
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Administrator, NASA
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MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY NOTE
U.S. ARMY MATERIEL DEVELOPMENT
AND READINESS COMMAND
Directorate for Manufacturing Technology, Alexandria, Virginia
Manufacturing Surface-Acoustic-Wave Devices
Work on an early phase of manufacturing
development is described.
A report reviews the manufacturing develop-
ment =p~!ied to two distinct surface-acoustic-
wave (SAW) devices:
?A 60-MHz by 60-microsecond down-chirp
linearly dispersive filter operating at 200 MHz,
or a lithium niobate substrate.
?A two-part 100-kHz-bandwidth resonator
operating at 400 MHz, on a quartz substrate.
The devices employ grooved reflective ar-
rays on the piezoelectric substrates. The
reflective arrays are formed by an ion-beam
etch process. Device specifications are given
in the table.
The report, which was prepared for the U.S.
Army Electronics Research and Development
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;he first phase in achieving full-scale produc-
bore capability. The specific electrical design
and test results for both filter and resonator are
presented. In addition, the process and
assembly procedures planned for the pilot pro-
duction line are discussed. Finally, the report
addresses several engineering tasks that still
require technical resolution and will be worked
on during the confirmatory sample phase.
Qaality-control requirements and electrical test
plans will be discussed in separate reports.
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cost was greatly reduced because the crystal
fabrication and package sealing and rework
steps were simplified.
Fv- AD;.7TIONAL INFORMATION:
You Can Isam more o".-alit about this IecWlolopy by oroerinp the NTIS
report(s).'
SAW Resonator a^_? Fe',ecuve Array Devices.
Order number: AL-A;25?25
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Aluminum alloy d-,e forgings made from r,.-o-qty-primed
forging stock have shown promise for use in some highNy-
Mrr~ssod helicopter parts, aoco ding to an L ivesttgati n con-
d.,cted for the U.S. Army Aviation Resez_rch and Develop-
ment Comm: nd. The forgi; . stock is p,-ep8red by a sa-
qu?nce of kneading-type preforging opus-Etions and heat
treated alloy forging was equivalent to or greater than that
of the 2014-TG fcrgings now used in production..
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