The “Jules Verne,” the automated transfer vehicle (“ATV”) being designed by NASA and the European Space Administration (“ESA”) to ferry supplies to the International Space Station is, by definition, a defense article covered by Category XV of the United States…
Rumors of disagreements between the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) and the Defense Department over export controls administered by the DDTC were confirmed today by an article in Defense News. That article reported that the DoD has commissioned a…
Jeffrey Lewis, who works at a DC think tank and who blogs at Arms Control Wonk, took issue with our post on the Sudarshan indictment. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear that either he or Scott Gearity, whom he quotes, bothered to…
In yesterday’s edition of The Daily Bugle, the excellent daily newsletter distributed by Jim Bartlett from Northrop Grumman, Carolyn Lindsey and I wrote a piece on the recent message on registration applications that DDTC released last week on its website.…
The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) has recently completed a review of registration applications and has reported in a “Message from David Trimble, Director of Compliance” that fifty percent of the registration applications that it received over the past…