On April 24, 2024, President Biden signed into law H.R. 815, an emergency appropriations package billed as authorizing $95 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel (the Act). While the Ukraine and Israel aid provisions...more
4/30/2024
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The Biden Administration has issued its long-awaited Executive Order on Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern (“EO”), which will create a new...more
8/11/2023
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On June 8, the Biden Administration released reports on the supply chain reviews directed under Executive Order (E.O.) 14017, “America’s Supply Chains,” detailing key findings and next steps to strengthen the resilience of...more
The administration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will break sharply from the policies of the Trump Administration in many ways. But one area where we expect more continuity than change is...more
The COVID-19 pandemic and the serious supply chain vulnerabilities it exposed have led to a seismic shift in U.S. policy and regulation, from stepped-up measures to protect U.S. technology, intellectual property and data from...more
11/5/2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the serious supply chain vulnerabilities it exposed have led to a seismic shift in U.S. policy and regulation, from stepped-up measures to protect U.S. technology, intellectual property and data from...more
11/4/2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the serious supply chain vulnerabilities it exposed have led to a seismic shift in U.S. policy and regulation, from stepped-up measures to protect U.S. technology, intellectual property and data from...more
11/3/2020
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With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the serious supply chain vulnerabilities it has exposed, we are seeing a seismic shift in US policy and regulation, from stepped-up measures to protect US technology, intellectual...more
On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed the nation’s first federal law related to “deepfakes.” Deepfakes are false yet highly realistic artificial intelligence-created media, such as a video showing people saying things...more
12/24/2019
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In its latest report to Congress, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the US government's interagency body that vets foreign investment with national security implications, reported that it...more
6/6/2016
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