Emerging Technology Technical Advisory Committee (ETTAC)

The ETTAC’s primary focus is the identification of emerging and foundational technologies (i.e. Section 1758 technologies) that may be developed over a period of five or ten years with potential dual-use applications as early as possible in their developmental stages both within the United States and abroad. The ETTAC is forward leaning – focusing both on the current state of such technologies and projecting their likely effects five to ten years in the future on national security, the U.S. defense industrial base, and the overall health and competitiveness of the U.S. economy. 

The ETTAC provide assessments and information on Section 1758 technologies, potential so-called “chokepoint technologies,” and trends in technologies in the United States and abroad of particular interest to the Bureau, based on guidance given by the Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security, or which may be suggested by interagency members.  

The ETTAC identifies trends in the ownership by foreign persons and foreign governments of such Section 1758 technologies; types of transactions related to such technologies engaged in by foreign persons and foreign governments; blending of private and government investment in such technologies; and efforts to obfuscate ownership of such technologies or to otherwise circumvent U.S. export controls. 

The ETTAC will also advise the interagency process to identify Section 1758 technologies. 

To learn more, please see the ETTAC charter.