On February 28, 2024, President Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) seeking to protect the sensitive personal data of Americans from potential exploitation by particular countries. The EO acknowledges that access to...more
In April, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to require telecommunications carriers to renew, every 10 years, their international section 214...more
WHAT: Concerned about competition with China and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) in August 2022 established a task force or “Tiger Team” of senior officials to look at ways DOD can...more
On February 4, 2022, the House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act of 2022, which is the House’s long-awaited counterpart to the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA) that passed the Senate with...more
On May 1, 2020, President Trump signed an Executive Order titled “Securing the United States Bulk-Power System” which gives the Secretary of Energy the authority to prohibit certain interests from supplying the U.S....more
Amid the Trump Administration's plan to reduce China's access to U.S. intellectual property, the federal government is imposing tighter scrutiny over U.S. universities' research partnerships with Chinese entities. The move is...more
• The U.S. Senate agreed on Nov. 16, 2017, to a conference report with respect to H.R.2810 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018. The bill provides for a review regarding the applicability of Foreign...more
The Defense Security Service (DSS) on Nov. 8, 2017, issued a Memorandum for Cleared Companies Operating Under Foreign Ownership, Control or Influence Mitigation Agreements Administered by the Defense Security Service. The new...more
Over the course of the next year, we are likely to see a new approach to the U.S. national security decision-making apparatus. While the Obama Administration often relied on an inner circle of key advisors to inform defense...more