An article in today’s Washington Post provides some interesting insights into the April 2007 conviction of Pennsylvania-based Electro-Glass Products for violations of the Arms Export Control Act arising from the company’s unlicensed exports of 23,000 solder-glass preforms to India. The…
A magistrate hearing pretrial motions in the criminal export case against Doli Syarief Pulungan wondered in a recently issued Report and Recommendation1 whether there might be a secret version of the USML which lists actual items rather than categories of…
Yesterday the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) announced new documentation requirements for export licenses. Failure to meet this requirement can result in an export license being returned without action although DDTC says that for an “interim” period of unspecified…
Defense News published yesterday an interview with Frank Ruggiero, Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Defense Trade and Regional Security in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. Mr. Ruggiero oversees all defense exports from the United States, including Direct Commercial Sales and…
Robert Bigelow is a Las Vegas hotel billionaire who owns Bigelow Aerospace and wants to put a Budget Suites of America motel somewhere in space near you. Such facilities are apparently called privately-owned orbital facilities or POOFs. Seriously. Of course,…