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The House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) is scheduled to hold the largest markup of export control legislation in the committee's history this week, with over twenty bills on the agenda. While export controls are an important tool to advance national security, they must be targeted at specific risks and effectively enforced and implemented by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) to avoid unintended [...]
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Next week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will consider the Chip Security Act (S.1705/H.R.3447), which would require companies to track exported AI chips. While there are valid commercial reasons for companies to pursue location verification, a government chip tracking mandate would create the impression of deepening U.S. government control over the American AI stack, fueling questions about the [...]
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The U.S. government has no more important responsibility than to protect the nation鈥檚 security. The United States should continue to pursue this commitment while staying true to the values of free enterprise and open markets for capital investments and trade that have made the nation strong and support tech leadership globally. 91快活林 and its member companies are committed to working with U.S. Congress, [...]
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On March 15, U.S. President Joe Biden signed a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill into law, which included innovative provisions that introduce new cyber incident reporting obligations for critical infrastructure owners and operators, such as those in the communications, information technology, energy, and financial services sectors. At a moment when other countries are also pondering if and how to [...]
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Recent cybersecurity incidents, notably the sophisticated nation-state backed supply chain compromise of SolarWinds and the profoundly disruptive ransomware attack of the Colonial Pipeline, have placed the cybersecurity posture of the U.S. in sharp focus. Of particular interest to U.S. policymakers is understanding the lessons that can be learned from these significant cybersecurity incidents. The [...]