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Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 70 – Lessons for Compliance from a Law Enforcement Career + Regional Geopolitical Risks in 2025 with Mark Nuttall and Steve Vickers
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Daily Compliance News: May 21, 2025, The I Want You Back Edition
All Things Investigations: Task Force Strategies - Addressing New Government Priorities
Wiley's 2025 Key Trade Developments Series: CFIUS Review and Outbound Investments
Compliance Tip of the Day: Standing at the Turning Point
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 68 - Why Geopolitical Risk Matters to Compliance and Legal Staff with Mark Nuttal and Chad Olsen
Episode 366 -- DOJ Issues Data Security Program Requirements
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Buried toward the bottom of President Trump’s Executive Order, titled “Unleashing American Drone Dominance” (the “Order”), is a mandate to identify military programs made more “efficient or lethal if replaced” by unmanned...more
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Explosives (ATF) has removed restrictions on the importation of non-lethal marking rounds (also known as “training rounds” or “simunition rounds”). The move is expected to remove...more
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has issued Ruling 2025-1, which loosens ATF’s policy with respect to the importation of firearm barrels. Specifically, the agency will now allow the importation of...more
On June 6, President Donald J. Trump issued two executive orders addressing the capabilities of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS or drones). The first, titled “Unleashing American Drone Dominance,” directs agencies to...more
On June 6, 2025, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders aimed at significantly reshaping the future of drone policy in the United States. One focuses on protecting national airspace from malicious drone threats,...more
Parts of the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan were disclosed online, according to reporting from various news outlets. The disclosure of AI.gov, a new federal website aimed to “accelerate government innovation with AI,”...more
On June 6, 2025, President Trump issued two executive orders (EOs) on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or drones. One seeks to make the U.S. a dominant drone manufacturer, exporter, and user; the second addresses the need for...more
At the same time that it potentially reduced licensing requirements on advanced computing items to a smaller group of countries by notifying industry that it started the process to rescind the AI Diffusion Rule, the U.S....more
On May 12, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced the rescission of the previously issued Framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Diffusion Rule. The following day, May 13,...more
The Trump administration recently announced its intent to scrap the so-called AI diffusion rule, a complex regulation the Biden administration published in January to govern the global export of AI technology and maintain US...more
Anyhow, on a possibly related note, on May 14, 2025, BIS announced that it will rescind the AI Diffusion Rule and that, until the time of the official recission, would not enforce the Biden-era regulation. Stop-Gap Stopped -...more
In a highly anticipated move, the Trump administration has announced that it will rescind and replace the AI Diffusion Rule issued by the Commerce Department during the last weeks of the Biden administration. Set to take...more
The second Trump administration has come flying out of the starting blocks on international trade policy actions—imposing and rescinding, shaping and reshaping tariffs, sanctions, and export controls. The executive orders and...more
Since returning to office, President Trump quickly issued two executive orders that mark a significant shift in the federal government’s approach to artificial intelligence regulation and oversight (“Trump AI EOs”). These...more
Reform the foreign defense sales system by: (a) Improving accountability and transparency throughout the foreign defense sales system to ensure predictable and reliable delivery of American products to foreign partners in...more
On 19 March 2025, the European Commission unveiled new draft measures to help Member States ramp up defence spending by 2030 among mounting concerns about Europe's security. The proposals reflect a renewed push to coordinate...more
On March 25, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced a significant expansion of its Entity List restrictions, adding 80 entities from China, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa,...more
“President Trump loves tariffs because he believes they provide him powerful negotiating leverage with foreign leaders. But he also loves them because they are his preferred mechanism for reshoring US manufacturing. While the...more
On Friday, February 21st, President Trump issued a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) that is aimed at promoting foreign investment while protecting America’s national security interests, particularly from...more
This regular alert covers key policy and regulatory developments related to EU geopolitical risks, including in particular, economic security, Russia’s war against Ukraine, health threats, and cyber threats. It does not...more
What Happened? Last week, President Trump signed an Executive Order that rescinded the Biden Administration’s October 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence....more
The incoming Trump administration is expected to make several policy changes likely to impact tech transactions. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to reduce regulation and cut federal bureaucracy, which he says have...more
On April 24, 2024, President Biden signed into law H.R. 815, the National Security Supplemental (the “Act”). While much of the focus centered on the foreign aid package for Israel, Ukraine, and the Indo-Pacific, the bill...more