Owings Mills, Maryland, December 14, 2007, The Test Connection, Inc. (TTCI) a leader in electronic production test and test development application solutions, today announced that it now is International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) registered. Meeting ITAR Certification certifies that TTCI has met requirements pertaining to organization structure, documentation, corporate policy, training and procedures to permit it to handle, use and transfer information controlled by ITAR and the U.S. Munitions list.

TTCI now has the right to manufacture and ship military and aerospace products for export.  Companies receiving this certification demonstrate that they have knowledge and understanding to fully comply with the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations as well as having corporate procedures and controls in place to ensure compliance.

Background On International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR):

ITAR is a set of United States government regulations that control the export and import of defense-related articles and services on the United States Munitions List. These regulations implement the provisions of the Arms Export Control Act, and are described in Title 22 (Foreign Relations), Chapter I (Department of State), Subchapter M of the Code of Federal Regulations. The Department of State interprets and enforces ITAR. Its goal is to advance national strategic objectives and U.S. foreign policy via the trade controls.

For practical purposes, ITAR regulations dictate that information and material pertaining to defense and military related technologies may only be shared with US Persons unless approval from the Department of State is received or a special exemption is used. United States companies can face heavy fines if the Department of State discovers they have, without approval or the use of an exemption, exposed non-US-Persons to ITAR-protected products or information such as designs, test data, processes, software code, etc.

A "US Person" can be:

• a US citizen;
• a permanent resident who does not work for a foreign company, a foreign government, or a foreign governmental agency/organization;
• a political asylum;
• a part of the US government, 
• a corporation, business, organization, or group that is incorporated in the United States under US law.

The list of ITAR-controlled technologies often changes. For more information about TTCI's certification, please contact us directly.