Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

ACDA is an independent agency within the State Department. ACDA
participates in interagency working groups that discuss export license
applications requiring dispute resolution. ACDA is interested in dual-use
license applications from a non-proliferation perspective -- anything that
could impact on the proliferation of missiles, chemical and biological
weapons, and nuclear weapons. ACDA's positions need not be consonant with
those of State. The Agency was created in 1961, has about 200-to-250
staff, and has a fairly substantial and growing technology transfer and
export control function. The Director is the principal arms control
adviser to the Secretary of State, the President and the NSC on
conventional arms transfer, commercial sales of munitions; nuclear,
missile, chemical and biological warfare; East-West military munitions
issues, CoCom, and negotiating MOUs with the 3rd world on strategic trade.