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Technology Alert List - Critical Fields and Technologies

The following fields and technologies are listed on the Technology Alert List as possibly having military applications.  If you are applying for a visa and are working in one of these listed areas, you may be subject to a Visa Mantis security check, causing delay and possible denial of your visa application.

Conventional Munitions
Nuclear Technology
Rocket Systems
Chemical, Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering
Remote Sensing, Imaging And Reconnaissance
Advanced Computer/Microelectronic Technology
Materials Technology
Information Security
Laser And Directed Energy Systems Technology
Sensors and Sensor Technology
Marine Technology
Robotics
Urban Planning
Conventional Munitions
These include technologies associated with:

Warheads and other large caliber projectiles
Reactive armor and warhead defeat systems
Fusing and arming systems.
Electronic countermeasures and systems
New or novel explosives and formulations
Automated explosive detection methods and equipment
Nuclear Technology
Technologies associated with production and use of nuclear material for both peaceful and military applications. Included are technologies for:

Enrichment of fissile material

Reprocessing irradiated nuclear fuel to recover produced plutonium

Production of heavy water for moderator material

Plutonium and tritium handling

Also, certain associated technologies related to nuclear physics and/or nuclear engineering. Includes materials, equipment or technology associated with:

Power reactors, breeder and production reactors

Fissile or special nuclear materials

Uranium enrichment, including gaseous diffusion, centrifuge, aerodynamic, chemical, Electromagnetic Isotopic Separation (EMIS), Laser Isotope Separation (LIS)

Spent fuel reprocessing, plutonium, mixed oxide nuclear research Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF)

Magnetic confinement fusion

Laser fusion, high power lasers, plasma,

Nuclear fuel fabrication including Mixed Oxide (uranium-plutonium) fuels (MOX)

Heavy water production

Tritium production and use

Hardening technology

Rocket Systems
These include ballistic missile systems, space launch vehicles and sounding rockets and Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) (including cruise missiles, target drones, and reconnaissance drones).  The listed technologies are associated with rocket systems and UAV systems. The technology needed to develop a satellite launch vehicle is virtually identical to that needed to build a ballistic missile.

Rocket System And Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) Subsystems

Propulsion technologies include solid rocket motor stages, and liquid propellant engines. Other critical subsystems include re-entry vehicles, guidance sets, thrust vector controls and warhead safing, arming and fusing. Many of these technologies are dual-use. Technologies include:

Liquid and solid rocket propulsion systems

Missile propulsion and systems integration

Individual rocket stages or staging/separation mechanism

Aerospace thermal (such as superalloys) and high- performance structures

Propulsion systems test facilities

Navigation, Avionics And Flight Control Useable In Rocket Systems And Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV)

These capabilities directly determine the delivery accuracy and lethality of both unguided and guided weapons. The long- term costs to design, build and apply these technologies have been a limiting proliferation factor. Technologies include those associated with:

Internal navigation systems

Tracking and terminal homing devices

Accelerometers and gyroscopes

Rocket and UAV and flight control systems.

Global Positioning System (GPS)

Chemical, Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering
The technology used to produce chemical and biological weapons is inherently dual-use. The same technologies that could be applied to develop and produce chemical and biological weapons are used widely by civilian research laboratories and industry; these technologies are relatively common in many countries. Advanced biotechnology has the potential to support biological weapons research. In the biological area, look for interest in technologies associated with:

Aerobiology (study of microorganisms found in the air or in aerosol form)

Biochemistry

Pharmacology

Immunology

Virology

Bacteriology

Mycology

Microbiology

Growth and culturing of microorganisms

Pathology (study of diseases)

Toxicology

Study of toxins

Virulence factors

Genetic engineering, recombinant DNA technology

Identification of nucleic acid sequences associated with pathogenecity

Freeze-drying (lyophilization)

Fermentation technology

Cross-filtration equipment

High "DOP-rated filters" (e.g., HEPA filters, ULPA filters)

Microencapsulation

Aerosol sprayers and technology, aerosol and aerosolization technology

Spray or drum drying technology

Milling equipment or technology intended for the production of micron-sized particles

Technology for eliminating electrostatic charges of small particles

Flight training

Crop-dusting, aerosol dissemination

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology

Fuses, detonators, and other munitions technology

Submunitions technology

Computer modeling of dissemination or contagion

Chemical absorption (nuclear-biological-chemical (NBC) protection)

In the chemical area, look for:

Organo-phosphate chemistry

Neurochemistry

Chemical engineering

Chemical separation technology

Pesticide production technology

Pharmaceutical production technology

Chemical separation technology

Toxicology

Pharmacology

Neurology

Immunology

Detection of toxic chemical aerosols

Chemical absorption (Nuclear-Biological-Chemical (NBC) protection)

Production of glass-lined steel reactors/vessels, pipes, flanges, and other equipment

Aerosol sprayers and technology

Flight training

Crop-dusting, aerosol dissemination

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology

Fuses, detonators, and other munitions technology

Submunitions technology

Computer modeling of dissemination

Remote Sensing, Imaging And Reconnaissance
Satellite and aircraft remote sensing technologies are inherently dual-use; increasingly sophisticated technologies can be used for civilian imagery projects or for military and intelligence reconnaissance activities. Drones and remotely piloted vehicles also augment satellite capabilities. Key-word associated technologies are:

Remote sensing satellites

High resolution multi-spectral, electro-optical and radar data/imagery

Imagery instruments, cameras, optics, and synthetic aperture radar systems

Ground receiving stations and data/image processing systems

Photogrammetry

Imagery data and information products

Piloted aircraft

Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV)

Remotely-piloted vehicles; and drones

Advanced Computer/Microelectronic Technology
Advanced computers and software play a useful (but not necessarily critical) role in the development and deployment of missiles and missile systems, and in the development and production of nuclear weapons. Advanced computer capabilities are also used in over-the-horizon targeting, airborne early warning targeting, Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) processors. These technologies are associated with:

Supercomputing, hybrid computing

Speech processing/recognition systems

Neural networks

Data fusion

Quantum wells, resonant tunneling

Superconductivity

Advance optoelectronics

Acoustic wave devices

Superconducting electron devices

Flash discharge type x-ray systems

Frequency synthesizers

Microcomputer compensated crystal oscillators

Materials Technology
The metallic, ceramic and composite materials are primarily related to structural functions in aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, undersea vehicles, and propulsion devices. Polymers provide seals and sealants for containment of identified fluids and lubricants for various vehicles and devices. High density graphite is used in missile nosetips, jet vanes and nozzle throats. Selected specialty materials (i.e., stealth and the performance of these materials) provide critical capabilities that exploit electromagnetic absorption, magnetic, or superconductivity characteristics. These technologies are associated with:

Advanced metals and alloys

Non-composite ceramic materials

Ceramic, cermet, organic and carbon materials

Polymeric materials

Synthetics fluids

Hot isostatic

Densifications

Intermetallic

Organometals

Liquid and solid lubricant

Magnetic metals and superconductive conductors

Information Security
Technologies associated with cryptography and cryptographic systems to ensure secrecy for communications, video, data and related software.

Laser And Directed Energy Systems Technology
Lasers have critical military applications, including incorporation in guided ordinance such as laser guided bombs and ranging devices. Directed energy technologies are used to generate electromagnetic radiation or particle beams and to project that energy on a specific target. Kinetic energy technologies are those used to impart a high velocity to a mass and direct it to a target. Directed energy and kinetic energy technologies have potential utility in countering missiles and other applications.

Look for technologies associated with:

Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation (AVLIS)

Molecular Laser Isotope Separation (MLIS)

High Energy Lasers (HEL) (i.e., laser welders)

Low Energy Lasers (LEL)

Semiconductor lasers

Free electron lasers

Directed Energy (DE) systems

Kinetic Energy (KE) systems

Particle beam, beam rider, electromagnetic guns, Optoelectronics/electro-optics (Europe)

Optical tracking (i.e., target designators)

High energy density

High-speed pulse generation, pulsed power

Hypersonic and/or hypervelocity

Magnetohydrodynamics

Sensors and Sensor Technology
Sensors provide real-time information and data, and could provide a significant military advantage in a conflict. Marine acoustics is critical in anti-submarine warfare; gravity meters are essential for missile launch calibration. Look for technologies associated with:

Marine acoustics

Optical sensors

Night vision devices, image intensification devices

Gravity meters

High speed photographic equipment

Magnetometers

Marine Technology
Marine technologies are often associated with submarines and other deep submersible vessels; propulsion systems designed for undersea use and navigation and quieting systems are associated with reducing detectability and enhancing operations survivability. Look for technologies connected with:

Submarines and submersibles

Undersea robots

Marine propulsion systems

Signature recognition

Acoustic and non-acoustic detection

Acoustic, wake, radar and magnetic signature reduction

Magnetohydrodynamics

Stirling engines and other air independent propulsion systems

Robotics
Technologies associated with:

Artificial intelligence

Automation

Computer-controlled machine tools

Pattern recognition technologies

Urban Planning
Expertise in construction or design of systems or technologies necessary to sustain modern urban societies. (PLEASE NOTE: Urban Planning may not fall under the purview of INA section 212 (a)(3)(a), U.S. technology transfer laws, or any other U.S. law or regulation. However, Urban Planning is a special interest item and posts are requested to refer such visa application requests to CA/VO/L/C for further review.) Look for technologies/skills associated with:

Architecture

Civil engineering

Community development

Environmental planning

Geography

Housing

Landscape architecture

Land use and comprehensive planning

Urban design

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要认真 考虑...

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