As discussed here in a previous post, the proposed definition of “public domain” by the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) has a Catch-22. Information that is in the “public domain,” i.e. information that has been published on the Internet…
ABOVE: Sen. Chuck Grassley Plenty of people are upset by the proposal by the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) to revise the definition of public domain to exclude technical data about defense articles released to the public without the…
Once upon a time, and long before the Internet, in a distant and dank corner of Washington, D.C., there lived an obscure agency called the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”), which, among other things, kept watch, like a jealous…
ABOVE: Matthew VanDyke A guy named Matthew VanDyke announced this on Facebook: I have been in ‪#‎Iraq‬ helping to raise and train a Christian army to fight ‪#‎ISIS‬. Sons of Liberty International (SOLI), my new company that provides free military…
Well, who would have thought? Contrary to broad expectations that export control reform would never in a million years come to Category XII, which contains tactical gamestoppers such as night vision and laser designators and markers, export control reform came…