Article: University Professor and Tennessee Company Indicted For Arms Export Control Act Violations

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Tennessee returned an 18- count indictment today charging J. Reece Roth, a Professor Emeritus at The University of Tennessee, and Atmospheric Glow Technologies Inc. (AGT), a Knoxville-based technology company, with conspiring to defraud the U.S. Air Force and disclose restricted U.S. military data about Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, to foreign nationals without first obtaining the required U.S. government license or approval.

The indictment was announced ...

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