President-elect Donald Trump's team latched onto the House Commerce Committee as one source of guidance and input for its incoming administration. The team announced Friday that it’s tapping Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., to direct the CIA, and several other Commerce members have shown themselves to be high-profile Trump backers who, due to their offices’ exposure to telecom and media policy, may have some influence on Trump on those issues. Any Commerce departures portend change for the committee amid a time of shifting GOP leadership.
President-elect Donald Trump's team latched onto the House Commerce Committee as one source of guidance and input for its incoming administration. The team announced Friday that it’s tapping Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., to direct the CIA, and several other Commerce members have shown themselves to be high-profile Trump backers who, due to their offices’ exposure to telecom and media policy, may have some influence on Trump on those issues. Any Commerce departures portend change for the committee amid a time of shifting GOP leadership.
The Bureau of Industry and Security and the State Department are issuing parallel final rules to clarify the types of military aircraft controlled on the Commerce Control List (CCL) and to delineate the goods warranting control on the U.S. Munitions List (USML), respectively, BIS (here) and State (here) said. More specifically, BIS’s rule elucidates and expands the list of items that are subject only to the anti-terrorism reason for control, and State’s revises USML Categories VIII (Aircraft and Related Articles) and XIX (Gas Turbine Engines and Associated Equipment). The final rules come after corresponding Feb. 9 proposed rules, and will take effect Dec. 31.
Rumors and speculation swirled about Jeffrey Eisenach's status on the transition team of President-elect Donald Trump. Eisenach could be out or on his way out as leader of the Trump transition's FCC agency action team, or his position could simply be under review, various Republicans and other contacts told us Thursday. Nobody knew for sure.
Rumors and speculation swirled about Jeffrey Eisenach's status on the transition team of President-elect Donald Trump. Eisenach could be out or on his way out as leader of the Trump transition's FCC agency action team, or his position could simply be under review, various Republicans and other contacts told us Thursday. Nobody knew for sure.
President-elect Donald Trump was sent advice from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation about how his administration can boost competitiveness, innovation and productivity in 2017. ITIF proposed 36 policies that can be achieved via executive authority and legislation in a 14-page open memo to Trump, the group said in a Wednesday news release. President Robert Atkinson said it means going beyond "outdated" economic theories and addressing "quarterly capitalism." He said it proposed "relatively easy, bipartisan steps" that Trump can take. For example, ITIF said Trump should create a digital infrastructure council of federal agency representatives to discuss how artificial intelligence, data analytics and the IoT can improve power grids, roads, water systems and other infrastructure. The group said that the Department of Agriculture's rural broadband support mechanisms should be updated and that access, permitting and leasing of federal land for fiber and wireless network buildouts should be streamlined.
President-elect Donald Trump was sent advice from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation about how his administration can boost competitiveness, innovation and productivity in 2017. ITIF proposed 36 policies that can be achieved via executive authority and legislation in a 14-page open memo to Trump, the group said in a Wednesday news release. President Robert Atkinson said it means going beyond "outdated" economic theories and addressing "quarterly capitalism." He said it proposed "relatively easy, bipartisan steps" that Trump can take. For example, ITIF said Trump should create a digital infrastructure council of federal agency representatives to discuss how artificial intelligence, data analytics and the IoT can improve power grids, roads, water systems and other infrastructure. The group said that the Department of Agriculture's rural broadband support mechanisms should be updated and that access, permitting and leasing of federal land for fiber and wireless network buildouts should be streamlined.
President-elect Donald Trump was sent advice from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation about how his administration can boost competitiveness, innovation and productivity in 2017. ITIF proposed 36 policies that can be achieved via executive authority and legislation in a 14-page open memo to Trump, the group said in a Wednesday news release. President Robert Atkinson said it means going beyond "outdated" economic theories and addressing "quarterly capitalism." He said it proposed "relatively easy, bipartisan steps" that Trump can take. For example, ITIF said Trump should create a digital infrastructure council of federal agency representatives to discuss how artificial intelligence, data analytics and the IoT can improve power grids, roads, water systems and other infrastructure. The group said that the Department of Agriculture's rural broadband support mechanisms should be updated and that access, permitting and leasing of federal land for fiber and wireless network buildouts should be streamlined.
PROVIDENCE -- The addition of more Partner Government Agencies (PGAs) to ACE in coming months is likely to drive a difficult expansion in the data collected by the government, said Amy Magnus, director of customs affairs and compliance at A.N. Deringer, while speaking at the Northeast Cargo Symposium on Nov. 10. Despite significant progress in ACE in 2016, the new PGAs are bound to be a source of anxiety as 2017 approaches, she said. The "most chilling" agencies to be added are Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service "Core" and the Fish and Wildlife Service, she said.
Colorado communities voted Tuesday to allow their local governments to deploy municipal broadband. The result builds on a movement that some observers Wednesday said could be a model for other states. The Colorado counties voted to opt out of a 2005 state restriction on municipal broadband (see 1609160028). Meanwhile, the North Carolina race -- which may have an impact on the state’s own ban on muni broadband expansion -- was too close to call. In state commission elections, NARUC Telecom Committee Chairman Chris Nelson kept his chairmanship at the South Dakota Public Service Commission, while a Democratic broadband advocate lost her election in Louisiana.