By: Margaret M. Cassidy & Andrew Swick In February 2026, the Department of Justice did something unprecedented in the nearly four decades since Congress created the modern foreign‑investment review system: it went to court to force a foreign company to sell a U.S. business. The target was Suirui International, a Hong Kong–based subsidiary of a...
By: Margaret M. Cassidy & Jelena Tasic One of the simplest policies a company issues to its employees is control of their devices. It is remarkable how often that edict is not followed: left in a car then stolen; unmanned at a trade show booth while logged in—trade secrets accessed; and as General Electric (GE)...
By: Margaret M. Cassidy & Andrew Swick Non-U.S. defense contractors even if partners, allies or friendly to the U.S. looking to sell directly to the Department of Defense (DoD) or to a prime or higher tier sub, often get lost in the foggy procurement laws and regulations that dictate when DoD can purchase non-U.S. items....
By: Margaret M. Cassidy DOJ is delivering a hard lesson to two former U.S. military pilots: teaching Chinese military pilots to fly can be an illegal export and a crime for which you get arrested. Most people think export regulations only control the export of things: equipment, software, or technical data. But that is not...
By: Margaret M. Cassidy & Andrew Swick I. Overview The federal government wields immense power – it can tax us, lock us up on jail, take our property, close down businesses and more. It exercised this power against Anthropic when contract negotiations between the Department of Defense (DoD) and Anthropic blew up in a spectacular...
By: Margaret M. Cassidy & Andrew Swick 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...
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...
