Office of Defense Trade Controls (ODTC) Undergoes Reorganization
November 26, 2002
Reorganization of ODTC, located within the U.S. State
Department's Bureau of Political and Military Affairs, will include division of
the department into four offices, addition of a third deputy assistant secretary
slot within the Bureau and elimination of the position of ODTC office director.
ODTC is to be divided into four offices for licensing, policy, compliance and
management. That realignment eliminates the ODTC office director position
currently held by William Lowell. Defense firms have persistently blamed Lowell
for the department's cumbersome licensing process, and some commentators say
that the organization change is intended to remove him. Lowell has been offered
a position to head one of the new ODTC offices.