The United States has adjusted its export control regime for missile technology in order to expand access for its allies, the White House said.
"These policy changes will help the United States advance common defense objectives with close allies, including the implementation of AUKUS, while maintaining a strong leadership role in nonproliferation and export control policy," the explanatory note on the White House website says.
The changes were made on January 3, when US President Joe Biden published a memorandum on national security aimed at modernizing the missile technology export policy in order to expand access for US partners such as the United Kingdom and Australia, which are members of the AUKUS bloc, the US administration noted.
Now the US authorities should show greater flexibility when considering each specific case of exporting such technologies, and facilitate the transfer of "certain military category 1 missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and space launch vehicle systems to certain partners with strong export control systems," follows from the changes.
Missile Technology Control Regime (Missile Technology Control Regime) is an informal association of 35 states, including the United States and Russia, for the purpose of missile nonproliferation.