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Chips & Science Act Commerce Department Outlines Proposed National Security Guardrails for CHIPS for America Incentives Program U.S. Department of Commerce https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2023/03/commerce-department-outlines-proposed-national-security-guardrails
Chips & Science Act Treasury Department Mobilizes Semiconductor Supply Chain Investment Incentives with Key CHIPS Investment Tax Credit Guidance U.S. Department of Treasury https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1353
Semiconductor supply chain The Silicon Allies: Achieving Allied Resiliency Against Threats to the Semiconductor Supply Chain Andrew Grotto; Chaeri Park, Stanford Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance https://fsi9-prod.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/silicon_alliesv3_1.pdf
Export Controls – China semiconductor tech Assessing the New Semiconductor Export Controls Matthew Reynolds, Center for Strategic and International Studies https://www.csis.org/analysis/assessing-new-semiconductor-export-controls
Export Controls – China semiconductor tech Commerce Implements New Export Controls on Advanced Computing and Semiconductor Manufacturing Items to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Bureau of Industry and Security Office of Congressional and Public Affairs https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/about-bis/newsroom/press-releases/3158-2022-10-07-bis-press-release-advanced-computing-and-semiconductor-manufacturing-controls-final/file
Export Controls/Licenses – Russia Implementation of Sanctions Against Russia Under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/federal-register-notices-1/2919-87-fr-12226-new-export-control-measures-on-russia-effective-2-24-22-published-3-3-22/file
Export Controls/Licenses – Russia United States Creates New Export Controls on China for Semi-Conductor Manufacturing Technology, Advanced Semiconductors, and Supercomputers in New Phase of Strategic Tech Competition Gibson Dunn https://www.gibsondunn.com/us-new-export-controls-on-china-for-semi-conductor-manufacturing-technology-advanced-semiconductors-in-new-phase-strategic-tech-competition/
Export Controls/Licenses – Russia Resources on Export Controls Implemented in Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/country-guidance/russia-belarus
Export Controls – Human Rights Violations U.S. and International Partners Adopt New Code of Conduct Gibson Dunn https://www.gibsondunn.com/us-and-international-partners-adopt-new-code-of-conduct-for-export-controls-and-human-rights/
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Goes into Effect ​​Morrison Foerster https://www.csis.org/analysis/uyghur-forced-labor-prevention-act-goes-effect
Software Supply Chain Companies Selling Softward to the U.S. Goverenment Soon Must Attest to Compliance with Nist Guidance on Software Supply Chain Security ​Morrison Foerster https://govcon.mofo.com/topics/companies-selling-software-to-the-u-s-government-soon-must-attest-to-compliance-with-nist-guidance-on-software-supply-chain-security
Executive Order on Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Biden Administration Carries Forward Trump Era Executive Order Scrutinizing Imports and Sales of Certain Communications Technology and Services Morrison Foerster https://www.mofo.com/resources/insights/210401-trump-executive-order
Sanctions – Russia Targeting Key Sectors, Evasion Efforts, and Military Supplies, Treasury Expands and Intensifies Sanctions Against Russia U.S. Department of Treasury https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1296
Sanctions – Russia FACT SHEET: Disrupting and Degrading – One Year of U.S. Sanctions on Russia and Its Enablers U.S. Department of Treasury https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1298
Sanctions – Russia & Belarus Implementation of Additional Sanctions Against Russia and Belarus Under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and Refinements to Existing Controls U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/regulations-docs/federal-register-notices/federal-register-2023/3238-88-fr-12175/file
Sanctions – Russia Sanctions Year in Review 2022 – Part II: Russia Morrison Foerster https://www.mofo.com/resources/insights/230303-sanctions-year-in-review-2022-part-ii-russia
Sanctions – Russia Russian Exposure: Guidance for Tech Companies Orrick https://www.orrick.com/en/Insights/2022/05/Russian-Exposure-Guidance-for-Tech-Companies
Sanctions Enforcement U.S. Sanctions Enforcement: 2022 Trends and Lessons Learned Morrison Foerster https://www.mofo.com/resources/insights/230306-us-sanctions-enforcement-2022
New Efforts to Prosecute Sanctions Evasions & Export Control Violations New U.S. Efforts To Prosecute Sanctions Evasion and Export Control Violations May Require Compliance Programs To Be Updated Skadden Arps https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2023/03/new-us-efforts-to-prosecute-sanctions-evasion-and-export-control-violations
New Efforts to Prosecute Sanctions Evasions & Export Control Violations Three Signs of a New Era in U.S. Export Controls and Sanctions Enforcement Orrick https://www.orrick.com/en/Insights/2023/03/Three-Signs-of-a-New-Era-in-US-Export-Controls-and-Sanctions-Enforcement
New Efforts to Prosecute Sanctions Evasions & Export Control Violations Departments of Justice, Commerce and Treasury Issue Joint Compliance Note on Russia-Related Sanctions Evasion and Export Controls Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/departments-justice-commerce-and-treasury-issue-joint-compliance-note-russia-related
New Efforts to Prosecute Sanctions Evasions & Export Control Violations BIS Imposes $300 Million Penalty Against Seagate Technology LLC Related to Shipments to Huawei Bureau of Industry and Security https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/about-bis/newsroom/press-releases/3264-2023-04-19-bis-press-release-seagate-settlement/file
Tech Talent China’s Approach to Tech Talent Competition: Policies, Results, and the Developing Global Response Remco Zwetsloot, The Brookings Institution https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/FP_20200427_china_talent_policy_zwetsloot.pdf
Tech Talent (paywall) The U.S. Needs a Million Talents Program to Retain Technology Leadership Graham Allison, a professor of government at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Eric Schmidt, a former CEO and executive chairman of Google https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/16/immigration-us-technology-companies-work-visas-china-talent-competition-universities/
Investments – China Investing in 2023 Chambers & Partners, contributed by Cravath, Swaine & Moore https://www.cravath.com/a/web/uDDiCvYfeooRAU4Y1YdZ7h/7xxZsk/2023_chambers_investingin_usa_trends.pdf
CFIUS President Biden’s Executive Order on CFIUS Likely to Yield Incremental Tightening Wilson Sonsini https://www.wsgr.com/en/insights/president-bidens-executive-order-on-cfius-likely-to-yield-incremental-tightening.html
CFIUS CFIUS Enforcement and Penalty Guidelines Issued Sullivan & Cromwell https://www.sullcrom.com/files/upload/sc-publication-CFIUS-enforcement-penalty-guidelines-issued.pdf
Reverse CFIUS Parameters of New U.S. Outbound Investment Regime Begin to Emerge WilmerHale https://www.wilmerhale.com/insights/client-alerts/20230221-parameters-of-new-us-outbound-investment-regime-begin-to-emerge
Compliance A Framework for OFAC Compliance Commitments Department of the Treasury https://ofac.treasury.gov/media/16331/download?inline
Decoupling – China (paywall) Decoupling Wastes U.S. Leverage on China Paul Scharre, Center for a New American Security https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/13/china-decoupling-chips-america/
Decoupling – China Decoupling in Strategic Technologies From Satellites to Artificial Intelligence Tim Hwang & Emily S. Weinstein, Center for Security and Emerging Technology – Georgetown University https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/CSET-Decoupling-in-Strategic-Technologies-3.pdf
Decoupling – China U.S.-China Technological “Decoupling”: A Strategy and Policy Framework Jon Bateman, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace https://carnegieendowment.org/files/Bateman_US-China_Decoupling_final.pdf
Decoupling – China The Strategic Challenges of Decoupling J. Stewart Black and Allen J. Morrison, Harvard Business Review https://hbr.org/2021/05/the-strategic-challenges-of-decoupling
Decoupling – China Understanding US-China Decoupling: Macro Trends and Industry Impacts U.S. Chamber of Commerce https://www.uschamber.com/assets/archived/images/024001_us_china_decoupling_report_fin.pdf
Joint Innovation Federal Agencies Continue Investment in Private Sector Research and Development Fenwick & West https://www.fenwick.com/insights/publications/federal-agencies-continue-investment-in-private-sector-research-and-development
Joint Innovation Leveraging U.S. Capital Markets to Support the Future Industrial Network Joseph L. Votel, Francis A. Finelli, & Samuel Cole, Business Executives for National Security https://bens.org/leveraging-u-s-capital-markets-to-support-the-future-industrial-network/
Joint Innovation Time For Congress to Beef Up Funding for DIU’s National Security Innovation Capital Program Ian Clay, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation https://itif.org/publications/2023/02/03/time-for-congress-to-beef-up-funding-for-dius-national-security-innovation-capital-program/
Joint Innovation Why the Air Force Has Its Own Venture Capital Fund Mark Sullivan – FastCompany https://www.fastcompany.com/90620774/air-force-venture-capital-silicon-valley-afventures
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