Lumen Technologies taps Sabre’s Chad Ho, also former Disney and Hulu, as executive vice president-chief legal officer, effective in June, succeeding Stacey Goff, remaining with Lumen for a few weeks after Ho’s arrival ... AST SpaceMobile, space-based cellular broadband network company, hires 3D Systems’ Andrew Johnson as chief legal officer ... Newly named to Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Cyber Safety Review Board: Jamil Jaffer, executive director, National Security Institute, George Mason University's Scalia Law School; David Luber, NSA director-cybersecurity directorate; Katie Nickels, Red Canary director-intelligence operations; and Chris Krebs, SentinelOne chief intelligence and public policy officer; retiring NSA Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce, whom Luber replaces on the review board, to continue serving on the board as a private sector member ... Cohu, semiconductor equipment and manufacturing services company, adds Karen Rapp, retired former National Instruments chief financial officer, to its board ... UPS announces June 1 departure of Brian Newman as executive vice president-CFO for personal health reasons; UPS will evaluate internal and external candidates to identify Newman’s successor ... Cyemptive Technologies, cybersecurity solutions provider for business and government, names former IBM and Hitachi executive Wessel Graatsma vice president-cybersecurity solutions, Europe ... Searchlight Cyber, dark web intelligence company, names Tim Warner, ex-Zscaler, vice president-global enterprise sales ... Blue Sky Networks becomes part of NAL Research with NAL President Robert Bills leading the combined company ... PayPal names GE’s Steve Winoker chief investor relations officer, effective May 15 ... Vsora AI, chip startup, announces former Stimio CEO David Dorval as vice president-operations and test … MwareTV, cloud-based multitenant platform provider, taps Daniel Conde Coto, ex-Emergent, as director-sales operations.
The Bureau of Industry and Security named Eric Longnecker, former head of the agency’s Office of Strategic Industries and Economic Security, the new deputy assistant secretary for technology security, he announced on LinkedIn. Longnecker, who has worked at BIS for nearly 20 years, announced his new role May 6.
Space operations need more data sharing and openness about who is operating where, satellite operators and space industry representatives and regulators said Tuesday in an FCBA CLE. Multiple speakers expressed the need for more global, integrated rules as well as added consistency in space situational awareness (SSA) data.
NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson announced on Tuesday the agency is making available $420 million in funding to build radio equipment needed to spur open radio access networks in the U.S. and abroad, under Phase 2 of the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund. Plans are to make the first grants in the fall, he said. Applications are due July 10. Davidson spoke during a Center for Strategic and International Studies event.
Companies should expect the U.S. to soon expand the statute of limitations for certain export control violations to align with a similar extension for sanctions violations, a law firm said.
Automakers and their trade groups cautioned the Bureau of Industry and Security to tailor its restrictions narrowly -- and allow a phase-in -- if they want manufacturers to stop buying information technology components from China for cars with advanced features, including electric cars.
The federal government is progressing in its understanding of the extent of threats to federal technology systems, Eric Goldstein, executive assistant director-cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event late Wednesday. Other speakers noted private companies have slowly become more willing to share information when they experience a cyberattack.
The FCC released the text Thursday of a draft NPRM proposing to bar labs from entities on the agency’s “covered list” of unsecure companies from participating in the equipment authorization process. Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and Republican Commissioner Brendan Carr announced the NPRM Wednesday. It will get a vote at the commissioners' open meeting May 23 (see 2405010073).
Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, a lead GOP co-sponsor of the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act (HR-6929/S-3565), confirmed Wednesday he will push hard for an amendment to the bipartisan 2024 FAA Reauthorization Act that would appropriate $7 billion in stopgap funding to keep the ailing FCC broadband program running through the end of the fiscal year. The Senate voted 89-10 to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to the FAA bill as a substitute for Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act (HR-3935).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York: