There's always a charged atmopshere around the approval process for free trade agreements (FTAs), because so many different parties have so much at stake. What makes the FTAs currently before Congress unique is the overwhelming support for them across all facets of U.S. industry.

It's no secret that the Korea FTA, in particular, would present major benefits to the U.S. high tech economy.  The FTA would reduce Korea's domestic preference programs, especially for wireless technologies, where U.S. suppliers have marked advantages, while putting not a single U.S. job at risk because of the high cost of labor in Korea.

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LUNA Technologies

LUNA Technologies, a division of Luna Innovations Incorporated (NASDAQ: LUNA), specializes in advanced solutions for fiber-optic test and measurement. Luna’s award-winning product line includes the Optical Vector Analyzer and the Optical Backscatter Reflectometer: flexible and easy to use tools for loss, dispersion, PMD, polarization, high-resolution OTDR, and distributed temperature and strain analysis for optical fiber components, modules and networks. This new technology provides diagnostic capabilities with complete characterization of optical components and sub-assemblies, resulting in substantial cost and time savings in development and production.

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