On Tuesday, with little fanfare and with no announcement that I could find, DDTC’s website was moved to a secret new address and went into hiding. Most export professionals had grown fond of DDTC’s unique URI: This was, until…
Last week the GAO released an unusually critical report which chided both DDTC and BIS over the way both agencies handled deemed export issues posed by university research programs. The report was prompted by an inquiry from Representative James Sensenbrenner,…
In April 2005, Finmeccanica acquired BAE Systems Avionics, Ltd. which it renamed SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems Limited. A notice posted on December 7 on the DDTC website reveals that DDTC’s Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (“DTCC”) is not…
In an announcement posted yesterday on its website, DDTC chides exporters for a recent increase in “low-quality” applications and says that it will no longer help exporters correct errors in applications but will simply return them without action. If true,…
Probably most of the people who read this blog were at the Fall Conference of the Society for International Affairs this Monday and Tuesday. For those few who were not, let me share a few of the more interesting things…