There are tens of thousands of defense contractors that not only work with export-controlled stuff, but even top-secret and other higher levels.

Getting just a secret clearance takes up to a year, and expecting to do this for all employees, in this AI market? Not going to happen, things move way too fast.

People complain about the US approach, but almost every high end manufacturing is being export controlled, from ASML machines to high end optic used in missiles.

> Lockheed Martin is able to restrict access of their product details to only us citizens.

The US government has stated that the US is very behind in manufacturing of military equipment vs e.g. China (in terms of scale and speed).

So if your example is gimp it then sure it's possible.