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Security News for the Week Ending April 3, 2020

April 3, 2020 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

DoD Concerned Covid Will Cause US IP Loss In an interesting analysis, Ellen Lord, DoD’s top acquisition official, is concerned that foreign interests (including unfriendly foreign interests) will buy or invest in small U.S. defense subs and steal our tech. In theory CFIUS and FRRMA should make that harder as the government has the right […]

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Trump Considers Executive Order Declaring National Security Emergency

July 2, 2018 CyberCecurity 1 Comment

President Trump is considering signing an executive order asserting a national security emergency using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). While every president since Jimmy Carter has used the IEEPA to impose sanctions on governments that we don’t like, no president has ever used it to tell private companies who they should buy parts […]

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