Yesterday OFAC issued a new set of designations of individuals under the sanctions regime for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In that designation, OFAC amended the designation of Viktor Anatolijevitch Bout to include the DRC Sanctions as the reason…
In an effort to deal with its ever increasing backlog of license applications and agreements, DDTC announced on Friday that it was locking up all its licensing officers in their offices and throwing away the keys until the backlog was…
At the Strategic Security Blog, run by the Federation of American Scientists, Matt Schroeder reports today on a briefing given last week at a Washington think tank by Mark Esper of the Aerospace Industries Association. Esper announced “Phase II” of…
Yesterday a new indictment for conspiracy to export controlled technical data was issued against a family that had been previously indicted for failing to register as agents of the Chinese government. At the center of the case is naturalized U.S.…
Since not much is in the news today export-wise, other than OFAC’s addition of “El Mono” Sabogal to the SDN list1, I thought I would bring up something I’ve been wondering about since seeing a Nextel television ad for the…