ABOVE: D&R Sports Center Mark Komoroski, owner of D&R Sports Center in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in August 2009 to illegally exporting rifle scopes and other optics to Russia. He was sentenced to 32 months in jail and ordered to…
Yesterday the Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) updated the website page of frequently asked questions (“FAQs”) relating to the agency’s commodity jurisdiction (“CJ”) request procedure. Although this update occurs just days before the requirement that all…
As has been anticipated since March 29, 2010, when the State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking eliminating the advance notice and approval requirements of section 126.8 of the International Traffic in Arms…
Last Friday, the State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) issued a Notice of a Proposed Rule that would eliminate the requirement for DDTC approval before a foreign licensee could transfer technical data about a licensed defense article to…
Regular readers are no doubt familiar with this blog’s occasional posts poking fun of press releases from defense manufacturers noting that the company had “achieved” registration with the State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”). A common feature of…