On May 13, 2025, the Department of Commerce formally signaled its intention to rescind the Biden Administration’s Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion (AI Diffusion Rule) two days before the January 2025 Interim...more
5/16/2025
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On January 14, 2025, BIS released the final rule for Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain: Connected Vehicles (Connected Vehicle Rule). The Connected Vehicle Rule prohibits imports...more
2/6/2025
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On his first day in office, President Biden revoked a controversial executive order enacted in September 2020 by then-President Trump, which prohibited federal contractors from conducting certain types of workplace diversity...more
On October 22, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a Request for Information (RFI) in the Federal Register seeking information about any workplace diversity...more
10/29/2020
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On September 22, 2020, President Trump issued Executive Order 13950, an Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping (the “Order”), prohibiting federal contractors from conducting workplace diversity or...more
10/7/2020
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On May 15, 2019, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) declaring a national emergency and paving the way for a ban on the use of Huawei equipment and services in U.S. telecommunication networks. On the same day, the...more
5/17/2019
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