Sorry, but you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. > "is there anything that would prevent you from obtaining a clearance?" If SpaceX asked that,

Sorry, but you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. > "is there anything that would prevent you from obtaining a clearance?" If SpaceX asked that, it would be even easier for govies to prosecute them, because very few of SpaceX employees actually need clearance, and you cannot require clearance eligibility if you don't actually plan to clear them and have them work on cleared work. You are confusing ITAR regulations with classification regime, and these two are wholly separate things. > Export controlled information is Controlled, Unclassified Information (CUI). It's not, how could it possibly be? CUI is labelling the government bodies put on stuff. ITAR and EAR covers stuff regardless of whether the government had anything to do with it. For example, if you work as a hobby on software to model nuclear bomb explosions, you'd better not show it your colleagues on H1B, as it's covered by ITAR. It's not CUI, because no govie has slapped CUI on it.