By: Margaret M. Cassidy & Andrew Swick 1. Overview The Department of Defense (DoD) and Anthropic demonstrated what a battle contract negotiations can be. Negotiations between the two blew up in a spectacular way on February 27, 2026, when Secretary of Defense Hegseth publicly labeled Anthropic a supply‑chain risk and ordered businesses in the DoD...
DoD just cancelled Anthropic, government style. To do so, it used a procurement law directed to the military to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk. [Here is The Defense Salon article discussing this.] That is not the only law permitting the federal government can cancel a contractor. The Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act (FASCSA)...
The final part of our FY26 NDAA review examines changes related to how the U.S. defense ecosystem operates globally while protecting sensitive U.S. technologies and mitigating the risk of adversaries impacting U.S. national security. We organized our review into five subcategories: ITAR AUKUS Exemption Implications Streamlining Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Reforming Technology Transfer and Foreign...
Trump & Biden Agree: AI Exports Should Be Controlled U.S. export regulations are fundamentally about protecting national security. By controlling exports the U.S. aims to keep adversaries rogue entities and rogue persons from using American innovation to develop cyber capabilities or weapons that can be used against the U.S., allies or to generally cause harm....
U.S. technology and products are ending up in North Korean missiles which are ending up in Russia which Russia then uses in its war against the Ukraine. One does not need to be a knowledgeable on U.S. export control laws to reach the conclusion that this fact demonstrates that U.S. companies with export-controlled items and...
The Story Federal Acquisition Regulations and Uniform Guidance regulations prohibit federal government agencies from purchasing certain Chinese telecommunications and video surveillance equipment. Regulations even prohibit the federal government from working with contractors who use banned Chinese telecommunications or video surveillance equipment – even if the contractor doesn’t use the equipment to perform the federal government...
