Oh, the things you’ll learn when you read the documents that companies file with the Securities and Exchange Commission: In March 2011, BlastGard’s management team officially assumed operational control of HighCom. Since this time we have accomplished a number of…
On November 7, the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) published its second iteration of the proposed rules on aircraft and aircraft components as part of the White House’s export control reform initiative. As with the first iteration, published back…
My inbox this morning had several, er, heads up alerting me to news that the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) has removed toilets from the United States Munitions List (“USML”). Needless to say, this was a blogging opportunity that…
Here I had thought that we had shamed most companies from issuing those grandiloquent press releases claiming that ITAR registration from DDTC constitutes incontrovertible proof that the company can leap tall buildings in a single bound, synthesize gold from base…
People looking for an up-to-date version of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”) on the web might be tempted to rely on the “Consolidated ITAR” on the website of the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”), the agency that…