The Sincerest Form of Flattery?
A helpful reader emailed me earlier today that some guy was so impressed with this blog that he decided to start his own site* (pdf image file of site – safe) by stealing each and every one of my posts…
Category BIS
Old Hard Drives Never Die (or Even Fade Away)
According to an article that appeared yesterday in the Daily Mail, a London daily, test launch procedures for Lockheed Martin’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD ) ground-to-air missile defense system were found on a hard drive purchased on eBay.…
Valve Exports Lead To Massive Fine
BJ Services, the Houston-based oil and gas field service provider, recently agreed to pay $800,000 to settle charges that it illegally exported certain valves without the requisite licenses from the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”). The BIS investigation, and…
DDTC Asks NSC For Guidance on Foreign National Rules
An article (paid subscription required) in this week’s Washington Tariff & Trade Letter reports that at the Defense Trade Advisory Group (“DTAG”) meeting held on April 7, Frank Ruggiero, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls…
Email: A Prosecutor’s Best Friend
ABOVE: Everjet HQ, allegedly According to a Department of Justice press release, a federal grand jury indicted a California man and two of his companies — Fushine Technology, Inc., a California corporation, and Everjet Science and Technology Company, which is…