The United States Department of Defense has ruled that the ORI satellite program using the ITAR/EAR strategy https://openresearch.institute/itar-and-ear-strategy/ that I developed and have been promoting is not subject to ITAR. ORI will now obtain a ruling from Department of Commerce regarding the Export Administration Regulations (the EAR). Commerce is expected find that the program is not subject to the EAR for the same reasons that Defense found it not subject to ITAR - portions of both laws that exempt public knowledge.

AMSAT now has a path forward: we can operate our development under the same strategy, and be free of worry about ITAR. We can admit anyone we want to a project. The cost is abandoning proprietary technology and NDAs. The benefit will be greater, since we can share development with other national AMSAT organizations, and other organizations such as LibreSpace, without fear.

I'm presently working on my Debconf paper and video, and will write a compliance manual after that to assist projects in carrying out the ITAR/EAR strategy.

Thanks

Bruce