The House passed on voice votes Thursday four telecom-related amendments to its version of the FY 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (HR-2500), including three addressing concerns about Chinese telecom equipment manufacturers Huawei and ZTE (see 1907020060). The Senate passed its 2020 NDAA version (S-1790) in June without language from any of the three proposed anti-Huawei amendments (see 1906270051). The House also approved an amendment led by Rep. Norma Torres, D-Calif., that would attach language from the 911 Supporting Accurate Views of Emergency Services (Saves) Act (HR-1629/S-1015). It would change the federal government's classification of public safety call-takers and dispatchers to “protective service occupations" rather than administrative or clerical occupations (see 1904050054). AT&T “enthusiastically supports” the HR-1629 language, Executive Vice President-Federal Relations Tim McKone said. House Rules Committee cleared the Torres and anti-Huawei/ZTE amendments Tuesday. One, led by Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., would impose conditions for the Department of Commerce to lift Bureau of Industry and Security addition of Huawei to its entity list that would impose export restrictions on the company, including a finding that Huawei and its executives haven't violated U.S. or UN sanctions and haven't engaged in theft of U.S. intellectual property during the preceding five years (see 1906190054). Undersecretary-Industry and Security Nazak Nikakhtar said Tuesday the department is reviewing export license applications to sell to Huawei to “mitigate as much of the negative impacts of the entity listing as possible” and hopes to have decisions “soon” (see 1907100013). A second Gallagher-led proposal would direct the president to submit a report to Congress on ZTE's compliance with a 2018 agreement that lifted Commerce's ban on U.S. companies selling telecom software and equipment to ZTE (see 1807130048). Language from Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., would restrict the use of telecom equipment made by companies originating in countries that are U.S. adversaries at Department of Defense installations in U.S. territories in the Pacific Ocean. Commerce plans multiple guidances on its blacklisting of Huawei due to the large number of questions from U.S. exporters, officials told a BIS conference Thursday, to address the most common questions from U.S. industries. “We've gotten a lot of questions and we’ve been funneling them up the chain for clearance,” said Hillary Hess, director of Commerce’s regulatory policy division. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., meanwhile, criticized Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Thursday after a report Mnuchin is encouraging Huawei's U.S. suppliers to seek licenses that would resume their sales to the company. “I strongly 'discourage' any American company from seeking licenses to deal with Huawei,” Cotton tweeted. The company “is a threat to Americans’ security, privacy, & prosperity. Don’t be the proverbial capitalist who sells the rope the communists will hang us with.”
The House passed on voice votes Thursday four telecom-related amendments to its version of the FY 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (HR-2500), including three addressing concerns about Chinese telecom equipment manufacturers Huawei and ZTE (see 1907020060). The Senate passed its 2020 NDAA version (S-1790) in June without language from any of the three proposed anti-Huawei amendments (see 1906270051). The House also approved an amendment led by Rep. Norma Torres, D-Calif., that would attach language from the 911 Supporting Accurate Views of Emergency Services (Saves) Act (HR-1629/S-1015). It would change the federal government's classification of public safety call-takers and dispatchers to “protective service occupations" rather than administrative or clerical occupations (see 1904050054). AT&T “enthusiastically supports” the HR-1629 language, Executive Vice President-Federal Relations Tim McKone said. House Rules Committee cleared the Torres and anti-Huawei/ZTE amendments Tuesday. One, led by Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., would impose conditions for the Department of Commerce to lift Bureau of Industry and Security addition of Huawei to its entity list that would impose export restrictions on the company, including a finding that Huawei and its executives haven't violated U.S. or UN sanctions and haven't engaged in theft of U.S. intellectual property during the preceding five years (see 1906190054). Undersecretary-Industry and Security Nazak Nikakhtar said Tuesday the department is reviewing export license applications to sell to Huawei to “mitigate as much of the negative impacts of the entity listing as possible” and hopes to have decisions “soon” (see 1907100013). A second Gallagher-led proposal would direct the president to submit a report to Congress on ZTE's compliance with a 2018 agreement that lifted Commerce's ban on U.S. companies selling telecom software and equipment to ZTE (see 1807130048). Language from Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., would restrict the use of telecom equipment made by companies originating in countries that are U.S. adversaries at Department of Defense installations in U.S. territories in the Pacific Ocean. Commerce plans multiple guidances on its blacklisting of Huawei due to the large number of questions from U.S. exporters, officials told a BIS conference Thursday, to address the most common questions from U.S. industries. “We've gotten a lot of questions and we’ve been funneling them up the chain for clearance,” said Hillary Hess, director of Commerce’s regulatory policy division. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., meanwhile, criticized Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Thursday after a report Mnuchin is encouraging Huawei's U.S. suppliers to seek licenses that would resume their sales to the company. “I strongly 'discourage' any American company from seeking licenses to deal with Huawei,” Cotton tweeted. The company “is a threat to Americans’ security, privacy, & prosperity. Don’t be the proverbial capitalist who sells the rope the communists will hang us with.”
The House passed on voice votes Thursday four telecom-related amendments to its version of the FY 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (HR-2500), including three addressing concerns about Chinese telecom equipment manufacturers Huawei and ZTE (see 1907020060). The Senate passed its 2020 NDAA version (S-1790) in June without language from any of the three proposed anti-Huawei amendments (see 1906270051). The House also approved an amendment led by Rep. Norma Torres, D-Calif., that would attach language from the 911 Supporting Accurate Views of Emergency Services (Saves) Act (HR-1629/S-1015). It would change the federal government's classification of public safety call-takers and dispatchers to “protective service occupations" rather than administrative or clerical occupations (see 1904050054). AT&T “enthusiastically supports” the HR-1629 language, Executive Vice President-Federal Relations Tim McKone said. House Rules Committee cleared the Torres and anti-Huawei/ZTE amendments Tuesday. One, led by Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., would impose conditions for the Department of Commerce to lift Bureau of Industry and Security addition of Huawei to its entity list that would impose export restrictions on the company, including a finding that Huawei and its executives haven't violated U.S. or UN sanctions and haven't engaged in theft of U.S. intellectual property during the preceding five years (see 1906190054). Undersecretary-Industry and Security Nazak Nikakhtar said Tuesday the department is reviewing export license applications to sell to Huawei to “mitigate as much of the negative impacts of the entity listing as possible” and hopes to have decisions “soon” (see 1907100013). A second Gallagher-led proposal would direct the president to submit a report to Congress on ZTE's compliance with a 2018 agreement that lifted Commerce's ban on U.S. companies selling telecom software and equipment to ZTE (see 1807130048). Language from Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., would restrict the use of telecom equipment made by companies originating in countries that are U.S. adversaries at Department of Defense installations in U.S. territories in the Pacific Ocean. Commerce plans multiple guidances on its blacklisting of Huawei due to the large number of questions from U.S. exporters, officials told a BIS conference Thursday, to address the most common questions from U.S. industries. “We've gotten a lot of questions and we’ve been funneling them up the chain for clearance,” said Hillary Hess, director of Commerce’s regulatory policy division. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., meanwhile, criticized Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Thursday after a report Mnuchin is encouraging Huawei's U.S. suppliers to seek licenses that would resume their sales to the company. “I strongly 'discourage' any American company from seeking licenses to deal with Huawei,” Cotton tweeted. The company “is a threat to Americans’ security, privacy, & prosperity. Don’t be the proverbial capitalist who sells the rope the communists will hang us with.”
Freshman Democrat Stephanie Murphy of Florida is already making a name for herself on trade, both during House Ways and Means Committee hearings and through leading an effort to restrict the administration's ability to levy tariffs on national security grounds without congressional approval.
The Commerce Department is planning to issue multiple guidance documents on its blacklisting of Huawei Technologies due to the large number of questions from U.S. exporters, Commerce officials said during the Bureau of Industry and Security's annual export controls conference July 9-11 in Washington. Officials said the guidance will address the most common questions BIS has received from U.S. industries.
Comments are due Aug. 9 on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s draft cybersecurity white paper concerning blockchain technology, the agency announced Tuesday. The paper outlines “standards, building blocks, and system architectures that support emerging blockchain-based identity management systems and selective disclosure mechanisms.”
Comments are due Aug. 9 on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s draft cybersecurity white paper concerning blockchain technology, the agency announced Tuesday. The paper outlines “standards, building blocks, and system architectures that support emerging blockchain-based identity management systems and selective disclosure mechanisms.”
Comments are due Aug. 9 on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s draft cybersecurity white paper concerning blockchain technology, the agency announced Tuesday. The paper outlines “standards, building blocks, and system architectures that support emerging blockchain-based identity management systems and selective disclosure mechanisms.”
After more than 25 industry associations urged the Commerce Department to grant more time for comments on its next advance notice of proposed rulemaking for foundational technologies, top Commerce officials said it will consider the request but suggested that U.S. industries have had ample time to prepare comments.
Licensing a small satellite could get cheaper and faster through a streamlined process to be on the FCC's Aug. 1 agenda, Chairman Ajit Pai told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce smallsat conference Tuesday. FCC officials told us the agenda could include a local franchise authority order stemming from last year's Further NPRM that would treat cable operators' in-kind contributions required by LFAs as franchise fees and subject to a cap (see 1809250017).