DDTC Issues Offline Notification, Publishes Forms Viewer Installation Guide, Removes Debarred Party
The State Department Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) notified industry (here) on Dec. 24 that all DDTC external systems (i.e., DTrade, TRS, EFS, Mary, and Ellie) and DTAS Online will be unavailable from Jan. 3, 2014 at 5:00 p.m. until Jan. 6, 2014 at 6:00 a.m. due to system upgrades in support of modifications to USML Categories VI, VII, XIII, and XX. The DS2032, DSP Forms 5, 6, 61, 62, 73, and 74 as well as the Common Schema will be updated. DDTC will provide additional information on the offline period and updates on Dec. 30, 2014.
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DDTC also published (here) on Dec. 24 an installation guide for the IBM Forms Viewer v8.0.1. The IBM Forms Viewer (v8.0.1) is the only forms viewer compatible with DTrade DSP forms and is required to access, view, and use the DTrade DSP forms, said DDTC. DDTC also removed on Dec. 23 (here) Hughes Network Systems (Beijing) Co. Ltd. from the list of Administratively Debarred parties.