Achieve ITAR Compliance with Teamcenter
Do you operate in a multi-national environment with supplier and partners scattered across the globe? Do you have sensitive information that must not fall into the wrong hands? Then you may need Teamcenter. Teamcenter has out-of-the-box (OOTB) functionality that enables companies to securely manage sensitive information and other highly valued intellectual property in accordance with export regulations such as the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
The U.S. State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) administers ITAR and establishes the United States Munitions List (USML), which catalogues equipment, materials, and technology (physical and information) that require DDTC approval for export. In addition, Section 126.1 establishes a list of countries to which no items on the USML can be exported. In the case of information, "export" can be as benign as exposing data in a public forum (such as a webpage) where it can be reviewed by foreign nationals. In other words, under ITAR, an item can be "exported" even if it never leaves the United States. Also, any technical data covered under USML that is taken out of the country in any format (paper, laptop, removable drive) is treated as an export, even if it is never viewed by a foreign person.
To address these issues, Teamcenter provides a robust set of authentication, authorization, and entitlement capabilities that you can use to define, control and secure access to sensitive data across your entire product lifecycle. Teamcenter's end-to-end lifecycle capabilities enable you to manage export control of sensitive material as an enterprise requirement from the earliest phase of your product development process through the delivery and support of the final product. Equally important, Teamcenter serves as the single source of all of your enterprise's product and process knowledge, enabling you to protect your enterprise's most valuable intellectual property by explicitly controlling who is allowed to access this information.
From a business perspective, Teamcenter enables you to rigorously and comprehensively enforce the rules and conditions articulated in authorizing documents, such as export control licenses, non-disclosure agreements and supplier contracts that underlie your company's globalization initiatives. Teamcenter uses an Authorized Data Access model (ADA) to facilitate item access control via:
- Identification of users as restricted
- Identification of data as restricted
- Authorization of access to restricted data by restricted users using "Authorizing Documents"
- Licenses
- Technical Assistance Agreement (TAA)
- Non-Disclosure Agreements
- Contracts
- ADA access validation during any access attempt by restricted user
All information (including documents, CAD models and JT data) managed by Teamcenter can be controlled through ADA. OOTB rules restrict access of ITAR controlled items to "US persons." A "foreign person" can be granted access to an ITAR controlled document through an authorizing document (export license). An export license (TAA):
- Attaches legal content
- Acts as a "gatekeeper" for the release of restricted data
- Holds list of authorized organizations and individual users
- Automatically revokes access upon expiration
Comprehensive auditing tools enable managers to log detailed user activities to an external log file or to the Teamcenter database that can either be analyzed using Teamcenter's reporting and analytics capabilities or processed by commercial off the shelf tools (COTS).
As the foundation for the world's most widely used PLM portfolio, Teamcenter provides entitled users with instant access via the internet to critical information. ITAR functionality is an essential base feature of Teamcenter, allowing your enterprise to:
- Consolidate and control its product data
- Ensure that all users have appropriate security registration
- Manage the digital processes that distribute your product information
- Support a single security model
Equally important, Teamcenter:
- Helps you lower the administration costs associated with ITAR management
- Comply with applicable laws and regulations
- Support industry standards and best practices
Ask your Siemens PLM Software sales representative for more information about Teamcenter's ITAR compliance solution, or visit the Teamcenter for Compliance Management site.
