Defense Trade Working Group

The Defense Trade Working Group (DTWG), consisting of officials from
Commerce, Defense, State and USTR, was established in FY 1990 to coordinate
agency policies and resources in areas concerned with defense expenditures.
The group works with industry to identify ways to target industry needs and
increase the success of industry export efforts by minimizing government
impediments, streamlining procedures, and improve the availability of
market information. The DTWG includes three subgroups:

- The Defense Exports Working Group, chaired by Commerce, which helps
implement Administration defense export policy and enhances U.S.
government support for U.S. defense exporters;
- The European Defense Cooperation Group, chaired by State, which
coordinates interagency input to U.S.-NATO International Staff for
the NATO Council on National Armaments Directors (CNAD) study on
defense trade; and
- The Technology Transfer and Third Party Reexport Group, chaired by
Defense, which works with industry to define a more proactive
technology transfer regime that could be implemented within the
limits of U.S. national security and industrial competitiveness
interests.