According to a piece published yesterday in Information Week, the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran announced that it had used 218 AMD microprocessors to build a supercomputer with a theoretical peak performance of 860 gigaflops. The fastest supercomputer in…
On December 3, Philip Cheng from Cupertino, California, was sentenced to a two-year prison term for his involvement in a scheme to export night vision equipment to China. Cheng, an export broker, had been involved in a transaction in which…
There has been some discussion here at Export Law Blog about the proper role of freight forwarding companies in export enforcement. If a customer of a freight forwarder proffers a package addressed to Iran without an OFAC license, should the…
Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA) recently introduced, with one other Democrat and two Republicans, a bill to “improve the performance of the defense trade controls functions of the Department of State.” The proposed legislation is a clear response to mounting exporter…
The Securities and Exchange Commission released (on Black Friday of all days) a document requesting public comment on whether the SEC should develop mechanisms to facilitate greater access by investors and the public to corporate disclosures concerning that corporation’s activities…