Most Americans have no idea about the arcane world of export controls, economic sanctions, or any of the many other national security laws that regulate U.S. commercial business. It can be drier than the tax code. While it may not make the headlines, it is the thing of many a Hollywood thriller.
Just this week, [...]
Over at the Export Law Blog a nice jab at the State Department’s definition of what should constitute a “defense service” under U.S. law. A gut feeling though, this rule is not going to die an easy death. I think the media, and the Obama Administration, spent too much time yesterday on the birther [...]
ITAR-free satellites? The Washington Post recently penned an item on export control reform efforts underway. There were no U.S. government officials quoted on or off the record for that piece, however, there is a related article quoting an unnamed NSC official that the ” ‘effort is focused on controlling fewer parts [...]
Reminder, State Department issues proposed ITAR export control rule for replacement Parts/Components and Incorporated Articles. Miami bank owned by Ecuadorean Government fined $7m for failing to comply with Bank Secrecy Act rules. US Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Curtiss-Wright Corp. requests export license for nuclear reactor components. State Department
National security experts discuss how radical Muslims may be using Shari’ah to subvert U.S. law and interests. The Tech Apps Group blog most recent post, “Lessons Learned from Blackwater,” is worth a read. ”Like a broken record, I’m always saying that you had better get expert help in order to ensure you [...]
For weeks now numerous Obama Administration officials have been delivering speeches that they are busy at work reforming what they call “outdated” U.S. export control laws. Outside input has been limited to a very select group of industry and like-minded academic types. Even key Congressional Committees have been kept out of the substantive loop.
Better the [...]
Gilberto Câmara, General Director of Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE), earlier this summer said that putting humans in outer space was a “complete waste of money,” adding that the U.S. space program “only serves the purpose of maintaining what Eisenhower called the industrial military complex.” Câmara’s barb was not the first, and certainly not the [...]
The Editor of The Space Review recently penned a piece on export control reforms and the space industry that is worth a read. It summarizes remarks made at a recent conference by senior Congressional staff on the status of various reform measures being considered by the Congress.
Regardless of how much interest there may [...]
Export control laws and regulations are not necessarily the things of popular culture (although the issue does crop up in movies every so often). If you live long enough in the greater Washington, DC Metropolitan area, you learn that folks who live in places other than Washington see certain things in Beltway happenings that make [...]
In one of the more odd stories emanating from the DC beltway, an official with a group called Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) told ABC News that military rifle scopes inscribed with Bible citations allow “the Mujahedeen, the Taliban, al Qaeda and the insurrectionists and jihadists to claim they’re being shot by Jesus rifles.” The [...]
Every now and then, usually when I post about it, I receive critical e-mail from folks about my stance on export control reform and why massive reforms of the system should be made in a piecemeal fashion. One of the reasons for this stance is that “reform” (updating a more accurate term) of the processes [...]
The State Department Directorate of Defense Trade Controls is seeking assistance from the export community regarding the content of submissions for the export of USML Category VIII Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs). See the 21 July 09 web notice.
Steven Aftergood from the Project on Government Secrecy posted an [...]
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