Commerce Division Proclaims New Guidelines to Safe Drone Provide Chain – sUAS Information

Elizabeth Cannon Govt Director, OICTS

Glad New 12 months, all! With the beginning of the brand new 12 months, I needed to offer some updates on my workplace.

Once I discuss with trade in regards to the Info and Communications Expertise and Companies (ICTS) program at Commerce, I describe the 2 methods by which we will use our ICTS authority. A technique is to analyze particular entities concerned in ICTS transactions and decide whether or not their nexus to a international adversary and their involvement in these ICTS transactions trigger undue threat to U.S. nationwide safety. If we conclude there may be undue threat, we will prohibit the transaction or impose mitigating measures. The second method we will use the ICTS authority is to handle a class of ICTS that we decide causes undue threat to U.S. nationwide safety if the ICTS is offered by an entity with a nexus to a international adversary. In these conditions, we will difficulty a regulation to handle the class of ICTS. Over the previous month, OICTS has been busy on each fronts.

In early December, we issued our closing ICTS rule, which replaces an interim rule that has been in impact since January 2021. The ultimate rule establishes the procedures our workplace will use to overview specific entities and their ICTS transactions. The rule makes a number of necessary updates to the interim rule, which embrace consolidating the record of applied sciences throughout the scope of the rule, outlining the sources of knowledge the Secretary of Commerce could contemplate when formulating Preliminary and Last Determinations, and refining the recordkeeping necessities for events to transactions. This rule will information our particular person investigations going ahead. Over the approaching 12 months, we anticipate to announce the conclusion of a number of investigations and can publish the ultimate determinations that accompany these actions, as we did with Kaspersky Lab Inc., final June.

Simply at this time, we additionally launched for public inspection within the Federal Register an advance discover of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) relating to unmanned plane methods (UAS). As we did with Linked Autos, we’re starting our inquiry by asking a sequence of questions to higher perceive the ICTS integral to UAS, the dangers related to UAS, and the involvement of international adversaries within the provide chain. For these of you with equities on this house, please submit feedback. Your considerate suggestions helps us immensely as we decide whether or not and learn how to regulate international adversary involvement on this trade. (I need to emphasize that this ANPRM has been in growth for months and predates any drone exercise in New Jersey and New York.)

Lastly, colleagues and I traveled to Asia (Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea) in early December to have interaction with counterparts there about our ICTS program. The conferences had been extremely productive, and I stay up for extra engagements with allies within the coming 12 months!

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