The U.S. defense industry & some U.S. & allied government officials have suggested in recent years that the U.S. export control process be reformed. Much of the debate on reforming the process has focused on the amount of time required to process an export license application. This report analyzes the time it takes to process export license applications. The average State Dep't. license application review took 46 days, while the Commerce Dep't. took 50 days. In 2000, the State Dep't. completed over 46,000 license application reviews & the Commerce Dep't. completed over 11,000. Charts & tables.