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DDTC Consent Agreement Highlights Technical Data Export Challenges

It’s my long-held position that technology controls present the most challenging export compliance challenge. Last month’sΒ consent agreementΒ between the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls and Honeywell International illustrates my point quite well. As we’ll discuss, Honeywell fell into three of the most common traps for unauthorized exports of controlled information. Companies subject to the International Traffic…

night image of network of lights with buildings in the background Settlements Exports Controlled - Software Encryption
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Settlements for Exports of Controlled Encryption Software to Iran

OFAC and BIS regulations SAP, a German multinational software corporation with a significant U.S. presence, recently settled allegations that it violated OFAC and BIS regulations concerning exports of software, upgrades, and patches from the United States to Iran and Iranian companies.Β  The settlement amounts totaled in excess of $6.4 million. In the following transcript George…

And This Year’s Award Goes To . . .
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And This Year’s Award Goes To . . .

There are all kinds of annual awards: Razzies for bad films, Golden Mullets for the worst video game and the Turnip Prize for lousy art. That got me to thinking. Maybe another one’s in order, to celebrate the most embarrassing export control penalty of the year. Let’s call it the Dummies. My nominationΒ will be hard…