Yesterday, the U.S. Senate, by division vote, approved the Defense Trade Cooperation Treaties with Britain and Australia. Under a division vote, Senators stand or raise their hands to vote but the numbers of votes and who voted “aye” or “nay”…
The over-burdened Office of Antiboycott Compliance (“OAC”) at the Bureau of Industry and Security, which engaged in all of three enforcement actions in 2009, is gunning for a record this year having just released its tenth settlement agreement for 2010.…
A multi-step attack targeting defense exporters was recently reported on Symantec’s security blog. This ploy first invaded one defense contractor’s network where it set up a directory on the system for fake press releases. The invaded network was then used…
ABOVE: Majid Kakavand Color me surprised (not really) but this afternoon a French court rejected the U.S. request to extradite Majid Kakavand, an Iranian alleged to have been involved in the export of U.S.-origin items to Iran through a company…
Last week Emenike Charles Nwankwoala, a 49-year-old resident of Laurel, Maryland, pleaded guilty to charges that he exported shotguns, pistols and ammunition to Nigeria without a license. According to the press release from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”), Nwankwoala had…