Kevin Wolf, a former top Bureau of Industry and Security official, presented his strategy for the future of U.S. export controls to address emerging security challenges during an April 15 Akin Gump webinar. He also briefly assessed U.S. export control policy during the Donald Trump administration and continued to say he isn’t behind the rumors that he’s being considered for the BIS undersecretary role see 2104070026).
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G. Nagesh Rao is now the permanent chief information officer for the Bureau of Industry and Security after previously serving in an acting capacity (see 2101290059), a BIS spokesperson said April 12. Rao works as an information officer to help support BIS’s information technology modernization efforts, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Intel “generally” opposes the U.S. imposing “unilateral export controls” on foreign tech companies suspected of threatening U.S. national security, Tom Quillin, senior director-security and trust policy, told a virtual forum convened April 8 by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security to identify risks in the semiconductor supply chain (see 2103290003). BIS said it will use feedback from the forum, plus comments received in its notice of inquiry (see 2104060045), to help shape recommendations to the White House on President Joe Biden’s Feb. 24 executive order to relieve supply chain bottlenecks (see 2103110047 and 2102240068).
President Joe Biden has yet to choose a leader for the Bureau of Industry and Security, leaving the agency without a clear direction as it considers competing visions for the direction of American technology policy. The rival factions seeking to influence Biden’s choice underscore how much of an outsized role the once relatively unknown agency will play in implementing the Commerce Department’s efforts to outpace China in emerging technologies and control what lawmakers say is an overdue set of critical technologies.
The Bureau of Industry and Security added Myanmar to its list of countries subject to military intelligence end-use and end-user (MIEU) controls, the agency said in a notice. It also made several technical corrections to the original MIEU rule, which was issued in January and took effect March 16 (see 2101140035). The interim final rule takes effect April 9.
The Bureau of Industry and Security added seven Chinese entities to the Entity List for procuring U.S.-origin items in a way that harms U.S. national security, BIS said in an April 8 final rule. The seven “supercomputing entities” also support China’s military and help it develop modern weapons, the Commerce Department said.
The Bureau of Industry and Security's decision to eliminate certain reporting requirements for encryption items (see 2103260019) should exempt a greater number of companies from filing mandatory declarations with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., DLA Piper said in an April 6 post.
The Bureau of Industry and Security added seven Chinese “supercomputing” entities to the Entity List for procuring U.S.-origin items in a way that harms U.S. national security and supports China’s military, BIS said in a final rule that takes effect today. The rule imposes a license requirement for all items subject to the Export Administration Regulations, and BIS will impose a license review policy of presumption of denial. No license exceptions will be available.
Lam Research Corp. added a semiconductor industry official and a former Bureau of Industry and Security official to its government affairs team, according to Rich Ashooh, the company's vice president of global government affairs. Lam hired Chantal Lakatos de Alcantara, BIS’s former director of nonproliferation policy, who will serve as its senior director for regulatory affairs, Ashooh said in an April 5 LinkedIn post. The company also hired Taylor Sholler, a former government affairs director with Applied Materials, who will serve as Lam’s senior director for legislative affairs. Ashooh left his senior role at BIS last year (see 2007210016).