The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls this month updated its list of commodity jurisdiction determinations for items and services controlled under the U.S. Munitions List. The new determinations cover certain amplifiers, drones, parts related to fuel tanks, freight advisory services, transceivers, helicopter training, engines and more. DDTC also said some of the items should be classified by the Bureau of Industry and Security under the Export Administration Regulations as EAR99 or other specific Export Control Classification Numbers.
National security attorneys Maria Alejandra del-Cerro and Elyssa Kutner have joined DLA Piper as partners in the national security and global trade practice, the firm announced. Del-Cerro is a former attorney in the State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls and joins DLA Piper from Crowell & Moring, where she'd worked as a partner since 2022. Kutner joins the firm from Sidley Austin, where she worked as an associate, then as counsel, since 2020.
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Karen Wrege is leaving her position this fall as chief information officer at the State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, she announced on LinkedIn. Wrege has been with the agency since 2014. She said she plans to work both in cybersecurity compliance and on fundraising efforts for a Washington-based organization that assists nonprofits.
The State Department last week released its annual report to Congress of authorized exports of defense goods and services to foreign countries and international organizations during FY 2024. The report covers direct commercial sales of licensed items for permanent export under the Arms Export Control Act and includes export statistics for each country and organization, including aggregate dollar values of the exports, their quantities and data on the actual shipments of those licensed exports.
The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls this week released its notifications to Congress of recently proposed export licenses. The notifications, which cover licenses submitted from April through June and July through September of 2024, include exports to Japan, the Netherlands, Australia, Finland, Israel, Canada, Ukraine, Norway, Germany, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and elsewhere.
A purported draft executive order to reorganize the State Department that served as the basis for a New York Times article is a "fake document,” an agency spokesperson said in an email April 21.
A federal government payment website, Pay.gov, will be offline March 29 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. EDT for the release of a new version of the application, the State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls said. "This outage will affect users paying their Registration fees during this window," it said.
Technology companies and industry groups mostly supported a January State Department rule that will add items to the U.S. Munitions List and remove other items that no longer warrant control (see 2501160027), although they said new restrictions around autonomous underwater vehicles, radar-related technology and more could cause unintended consequences.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky declared a mistrial in a case against defense contractor Quadrant Magnetics for violating export controls after the government sent the company thousands of pages of documents relevant to the case immediately prior to and during the company's trial (United States v. Quadrant Magnetics, W.D. Ky. # 3:22-00088).