BIS Finalizes Changes to Defense Priorities and Allocations System

The Bureau of Industry and Security issued a rule last week to finalize changes to its Defense Priorities and Allocations System regulation with “minor technical amendments” from the proposed version BIS released in February. The rule, effective Aug. 21, will clarify the “existing standards and procedures” by which BIS may provide special priorities assistance, providing “transparency and differentiation between other departments’ priorities” and the Commerce Department’s jurisdiction. Other changes make “technical edits to reflect certain non-substantive updates since the DPAS regulation was last amended in 2014.”