DDTC Announces Licenses Processing Times
May 2008
The Directorate for Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) has posted an updated chart to show the past year’s license processing times. DDTC says it gives out these processing times so that US defense firms can clearly predict the amount of time required for license submissions. In the past year the average processing times have been cut from 35 days down to 15. These processing times are only for applications submitted electronically via the D-TRADE system. Beginning in May DDTC will release April 2008 hardcopy statistics which will provide a more accurate average processing time.
Editor’s Note: 15 days average processing times..hmmm. Well, if I were you, I wouldn’t tell anybody in my company that the average license processing time is 15 days because when all of your staffed applications take well over 15 days, everybody in your company is going to blame you for the delays. — John Black
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