Comment from Douglas Kelley

[200.205, 200.340] To Whom it May Concern: I am a full professor of mechanical engineering. I am writing in my personal capacity to oppose the proposed revisions to sections 200.202(e) and 200.220 that would restrict international scientific collaboration and isolate American scientists. I have many international collaborations which enhance my work and its ability to strengthen American science. For example, in my work studying fluid flow in the brain and its impact on Alzheimer's disease, I have worked with colleagues from Denmark, China, the Netherlands, Norway, and several other countries. In my work making aluminum manufacture more efficient, I have worked with colleagues from Canada and Britain. In my work on liquid metal batteries for grid-scale energy storage, I have worked with colleagues from Germany. Because America has the world's greatest university system, researchers come here from many countries. I have worked with students and postdocs from China and Iran, among other places. Every researcher I've worked with from a 'covered foreign country' loves American democracy and admires American freedom. Stopping collaboration only hardens those countries' opposition to America. By halting international collaboration, America would cut itself off from the world's advances and hobble its own science. Our economy and security would suffer while our adversaries raced ahead. It's a terrible idea.