The State Department is accepting applications for its Defense Export Controls and Compliance System 2022 User Group, which will provide feedback to the agency on DECCS functionality and suggest potential improvements. The agency’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls will appoint 50 industry volunteers to the user group, all of whom must be enrolled with DECCS and represent companies, government agencies or third-party organizations involved in defense trade. Member terms will last one year. Applicants should email PM_DDTCProjectTeam@state.gov by close of business March 10 with name and company or government affiliation. DDTC will make its selections by March 31.
As part of the U.S.’s new Russian export controls (see 2202240069), the State Department will deny licenses or approvals for a range of defense-related exports and brokering activities associated with sales to Ukraine's Donetsk or Luhansk regions. The measures, outlined by the agency’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls Feb. 25, will place new restrictions on exports, reexports, retransfers or temporary imports of defense articles or defense services listed on the U.S. Munitions List. Certain exemptions will apply to exports and transfers related to the “official business” of the U.S. government, DDTC said, including some activities by government employees, grantees or contractors. The agency urged exporters, “particularly those conducting business in the region,” to continue to monitor its website for policy updates or changes.
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The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls this week released an updated version of its guidelines for preparing agreements and several other newly issued or updated guidance documents. The updated agreement guidelines, which were previewed by DDTC’s licensing director last week (see 2202100020), revises and restructures the guidance “in a more logical and orderly fashion,” the agency said Feb. 14.
The State Department has crafted new guidelines for preparing defense trade agreements and plans to release them soon, said Catherine Hamilton, licensing director at the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. She said the agency also plans to make changes to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations to reflect the new document, which would update submission guidelines for Technical Assistance Agreements, Manufacturing License Agreements, and Warehouse and Distribution Agreements.
Although the Commerce and State departments have been able to conduct some export end-use checks during the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said both agencies continue to face challenges scheduling on-site inspections.
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The State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls recently posted a name change notice for L3 Micreo Pty Ltd and waived the requirement for amendments to change approved license authorizations because of the “volume” of authorizations requiring amendments to reflect the change, DDTC said. L3 Micreo Pty Ltd was changed to L3Harris Micreo Pty Ltd. New license applications received after March 3 that identify the old name “will be considered for return without action for correction.”
The State Department this week fined a U.S. electro-optics equipment manufacturer $840,000 after it illegally exported or tried to export defense items to several countries, including China and Lebanon. Torrey Pines Logic didn’t secure required export licenses before shipping its products, illegally participated in defense export activities while it was ineligible and didn’t maintain adequate export transaction records, the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls said in a charging letter released Jan. 31. TPL ultimately agreed to a series of remedial measures to improve its export compliance program, including hiring a DDTC-approved compliance officer.