Clif Burns

Clif Burns

Radar That Wasn’t on the Radar

The December 2006 Wassenaar Plenary made a number of changes to the Waasenaar control lists, and as I noted on Friday, I’ve been going through the changes to find anything of interest. One change of interest (particularly to Lockheed Martin)…

Who Says -158°C Is Warm?

The changes adopted at the December 2006 Plenary of Wassenaar are now posted on the Wassenaar website, and we’ve started to go through them to look for things of interest. The first thing to catch our eye was to see…

UAE to BIS: “Huh?”

The UAE was apparently as surprised as I was by the veiled threats of action delivered at WITA yesterday by BIS Assistant Secretary Chris Padilla. During his speech, Padilla indicated that unspecified sanctions against the UAE were imminent because of…

BIS to UAE: “Time is Running Short”

Illya Antonenko, one of our intrepid associate editors, attended a presentation today at the Washington International Trade Association by Chris Padilla, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration. As expected, Mr. Padilla continued to tout BIS’s plans to expand the…