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During the Project's technology transfer efforts, difficulties arose because the NASA software distribution policies and export control approval processes changed. The situation was made more difficult because each agreement had to be negotiated through multiple NASA organizations that experienced a significant turnover in personnel. Thus, there seemed to be an insufficient amount of corporate knowledge regarding these complicated processes. Many of the Project's resources were spent to address these issues with less than complete satisfactory results. In addition, the goals for technology transfer often changed as the technology matured and was proven successful.