FCC seeks to protect telecommunications certification bodies, measurement facilities, and the equipment authorization program from national security threats posed by foreign adversaries....more
6/10/2024
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On January 5, 2023, the President signed into law the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act of 2022 ("PAIP" or "Act"), which requires the President to impose a range of sanctions on any foreign person that the...more
On June 30, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) made final the Commission's prior proposed designation of Huawei Technologies Company (Huawei) and ZTE...more
In its recent Report and Order (Order), the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) adopted a rule prohibiting the use of Universal Service Fund (USF) funds by USF recipients that are eligible telecommunications carriers...more
Department of Treasury Issues Final FIRRMA Regulations -
The U.S. Treasury Department has issued final rules (the Regulations) implementing changes to the foreign investment review process administered by the Committee on...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce today published a proposed rule to implement Executive Order 13873, Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services (ICTS) Supply Chain. ...more
On September 17, 2019, the Department of the Treasury issued two Proposed Rules intended to implement changes made by the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA) to the Defense Production Act of 1950...more
As mandated by Section 889 (a) (1) (A) of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act ("NDAA"), the Defense Department, General Services Agency and NASA have issued the pre-publication version of an interim rule that bars...more
On May 15, 2019, in a one-two punch, the White House and the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) took actions that effectively could ban Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., 68 of its non-U.S. affiliates, and other unnamed Chinese...more
As part of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (“2019 NDAA”), Congress recently enacted significant changes to the process by which the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) operates as well...more
As part of the National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”) for Fiscal Year 2019, Public Law No: 115-232, Congress enacted the Export Controls Act of 2018 (“ECA”)....more
9/27/2018
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Three senators – Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Sherrod Brown, Sen. Ron Wyden, ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee, and Sen. Claire McCaskill, ranking member on the Homeland Security and Government Affairs...more