Henry J Cobb wrote:

...One concern of the committee was the possibility of U.S. technology
being leaked to adversaries because of liberal licensing of Joint
Strike Fighter technology to subcontractors. General Moseley said the
JSF program office is aware of the issue.

So the F/A-22 is safer because nobody wants it?

No, it means the JSF program has to worry about firewalling its key
technology. This is nothing new; we've been worrying about this ever since
the F-16 (if not earlier). It has little to do with F/A-22, except that JSF
uses technology from the older design (such as radar) that has to be
protected.

BTW: Congress's main conern on this is really industry not adversaries. The
main reasons they raise these concerns are pressures form certain suppliers
who want to be protected form foreign second-sourcing. That's why we get
idiotic stuff like the sweeping restrictions on foreign technology
acquisition (under the "buy America" guise) that Congress tried to impose
recently.
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