State Dept. Drafting Rule to Seek Comments on Tech Frontier, USML Revisions

The State Department sent an interim final rule for interagency review that would seek public comments on revisions to the U.S. Munitions List. The rule, sent for review Feb. 2, would request feedback “regarding the technology frontier,” which could help the agency identify specific technology capabilities that have “sufficiently evolved” to consider amending the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. The State Department would revise and exclude entries on the USML that “no longer warrant inclusion” and “add entries for critical and emerging technologies that do.”