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WHAT: The House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Technical, Industrial, and Governmental Engagement for Readiness (TIGER) Task Force has released a report identifying problems with the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) process and...more
Please join Russell Randle, Karl Means and Tara Hopkins of Miles & Stockbridge for a timely breakfast briefing on the Russian export controls and sanctions. The United States sanctions and export control response to the...more
Last week, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) each held a hearing on the US Intelligence Community’s (IC) 2022 Annual Threat Assessment, a...more
On March 2, 2022, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced the launch of a new interagency task force, the KleptoCapture Task Force, focused on enforcing the recent U.S. financial sanctions and other economic...more
This week, the Biden Administration imposed extensive new export controls and economic sanctions against the Russian Federation in response to its declaration of two independent states in Eastern Ukraine and subsequent...more
The United States, along with the European Union, the United Kingdom, and other allies, has announced a new round of significantly tougher sanctions and export controls in response to the expanding Russian military invasion...more
On January 20, 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s (Treasury) Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned four individuals who are acting at the direction of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to...more
One of the widest-ranging bills of the U.S. Congress’s legislative year, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA), is nearing the finish line as both the House and Senate overwhelmingly approved the...more
On January 6, 2020, the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released an interim final rule controlling the export of certain artificial intelligence software relating to geospatial imagery...more
On October 23, 2019, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced it was removing three Turkish government ministers and two Turkish government ministries from its list of Specially Designated...more
On October 14, President Trump issued an Executive order (“E.O.”) imposing sanctions on Turkey in response to Turkey’s military offensive in northern Syria. New E.O. 13894 authorizes the U.S. Departments of State and the...more
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday, July 10, expanding and increasing the powers of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). The bill is called the Foreign Investment Risk...more
One of the most important areas of regulation for defense contractors is the International Traffic In Arms Regulations (“ITAR”). ITAR are the State Department controls that regulate the defense industry. Companies regulated...more
On June 30, 2016, the Government of Canada announced plans to modify Canada’s export control system to comply with the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The proposed changes include new regulations on arms brokering, a formalization...more
On May 5, 2015, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and the U.S. State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) proposed extensive revisions to the current U.S. export...more