Left Behind
For those of you who didn’t get to go to the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget and have been left behind, like me, to swelter in the heat and humidity of late June in the District of Columbia (or…
Category DDTC
DDTC Still Can’t Find Its Way With Inertial Navigational Chips
The QRS-11 navigational chip, perhaps the poster child for the so-called ITAR creep phenomenon, still bedevils the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. Today, the DDTC issued a final rule amending the rule excluding the QRS-11 chip from the United States…
Registration Myths
Some companies have found a new reason to register with the Directorate of Defense Controls (“DDTC”), one that would probably cause the folks at DDTC to raise an eyebrow or three. Consider this press release from test equipment manufacturer CIMTEK:…
Sins of the Father
Earlier this month, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit announced that it was dismissing the appeal of machine gun manufacturer and distributor U.S. Ordnance in its lawsuit against the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”). The…
U.S. Export License Requirements Delay Sale of Radar Parts to U.S. Navy
Last week, Dr. Thomas Enders, the CEO of the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (“EADS”) spoke at the CEO Leadership Series at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. An article in World Politics Review describes an ITAR war story told…