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On October 17, 2024, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released three rules—one Final Rule, one Interim Final Rule, and one Proposed Rule—to reduce controls on a variety of less sensitive space-related items, thereby ensuring the U.S. space industrial base remains globally competitive while also bolstering the U.S. international space partnerships. Concurrently…

On August 20, 2024, the State Department published an Interim Final Rule in the Federal Register amending the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) to add a license exemption regime for exports, reexports, transfers, and temporary imports of defense articles and defense services to and between Australia and the United Kingdom. The Interim Final Rule…

On May 1, 2024, the State Department published a proposed rule to amend the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and establish an exemption to the licensing requirement for exports, reexports, transfers, or temporary import of defense articles to or within Australia and the United Kingdom. This proposed rule is intended to promote the goals…

To “further enhance defense industrial base cooperation and technology innovation with Australia and the United Kingdom,” the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued an interim final rule (“IFR”) on April 18, 2024 to ease various licensing requirements prescribed by the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) for exports, reexports, or transfers (in-country) to…

President Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 into law (P.L. 118-31) (NDAA 2024 or Act) in December 2023. Lawmakers frequently target this type of “must pass” legislation as a vehicle to codify their own, often unrelated policy priorities or “rider” provisions. The NDAA 2024 is no exception, containing a patchwork…