Clif Burns

Clif Burns

Export Control Reform Roundtable in Dallas

On Wednesday, my colleague Susan Kovarovics will be in our Dallas office conducting a roundtable on export control reform. The roundtable will discuss the current status of export control reform, particularly the transitioning of certain items from the USML to…

Miracle on E Street

It seems like the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) has been working on the amendments to the brokering rules in Part 129 of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations since sometime during the Taft Administration. So when the latest…

Do What We Mean, Not What We Say

The charging documents for the consent decree between Aeroflex and the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, which I wrote about last week, have now been released, and they tell an interesting, and somewhat alarming, story. It’s an alarming story because…