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FCC Takes First Covered List Enforcement Action Under New Ban on Devices Incorporating Prohibited “Logic-Bearing Hardware Components”
Drawing on senior career and political roles at the White House and the Department of Justice (DOJ) across three presidential administrations, Devin DeBacker advises clients at the intersection of national security, geopolitical risk, regulatory oversight, and complex commercial transactions and technology.
FCC Takes First Covered List Enforcement Action Under New Ban on Devices Incorporating Prohibited “Logic-Bearing Hardware Components”
Drawing on senior career and political roles at the White House and the Department of Justice (DOJ) across three presidential administrations, Devin DeBacker advises clients at the intersection of national security, geopolitical risk, regulatory oversight, and complex commercial transactions and technology.
FCC Poised to Overhaul International Section 214 Rules
Drawing on senior career and political roles at the White House and the Department of Justice (DOJ) across three presidential administrations, Devin DeBacker advises clients at the intersection of national security, geopolitical risk, regulatory oversight, and complex commercial transactions and technology.
FCC Poised to Overhaul International Section 214 Rules
Drawing on senior career and political roles at the White House and the Department of Justice (DOJ) across three presidential administrations, Devin DeBacker advises clients at the intersection of national security, geopolitical risk, regulatory oversight, and complex commercial transactions and technology.
The Electric Grid’s ICTS Moment? New National Security Executive Order Targets Foreign-Sourced Energy Equipment
On August 26, 2026, President Trump issued Executive Order 14421, Declaring a National Emergency to Secure the United States Bulk-Power System. The Order establishes a new national security regulatory framework for a broad range of equipment, software, services, and supply chain relationships associated with the U.S. electric grid. Although the Order is framed as a grid security measure, its implications extend well beyond utilities.
FCC Narrows Covered List Definition of “Power Inverters” and Clarifies Meaning of “Foreign-Produced”
Yesterday, following a second National Security Determination from the Department of War (“DoW”), the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) clarified the scope of its ban on foreign-produced “power inverters,” a category of devices added to the FCC’s “Covered List” in late July.
FCC Restricts Imports of New Foreign-Produced Power Inverters and Advanced Robotic Devices with Additions to its Covered List
Drawing on senior career and political roles at the White House and the Department of Justice (DOJ) across three presidential administrations, Devin DeBacker advises clients at the intersection of national security, geopolitical risk, regulatory oversight, and complex commercial transactions and technology.
ChinaTalk: Data Wars and the DOJ
Click here to listen to ChinaTalk in your favorite podcast app. To discuss the Department of Justice’s new proposed rule on data security, we interviewed two brilliant guests from the ChinaTalk Hall of Fame — DOJ National Security Division attorneys Lee Licata and Devin DeBacker. Before DOJ, Lee was an attorney at DHS and then CBP, while Devin was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis and then worked with the Office of White House Counsel.
Lawfare Daily: The New Program to Protect Americans' Bulk Data from Foreign Exploitation, with DOJ's Devin DeBacker
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With Today, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson and Lawfare Contributing Editor Brandon Van Grack sat down with Devin DeBacker, the Chief of the Foreign Investment Review Section at the U.S. Department of Justice, to talk about the new program his office is setting up regulating foreign transactions involving bulk data on Americans.
The Lawfare Podcast: Devin DeBacker and Lee Licata on the Biden Administration’s New Executive Order on Preventing Access to Americans' Bulk Sensitive Personal Data | Lawfare
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With On February 28, the Biden administration issued an Executive Order (EO) entitled “Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern.” Lawfare Senior Editor Stephanie Pell sat down with Devin DeBacker and Lee Licata, the Chief and one of the Deputy Chiefs of the Foreign Investment Review Section in the National Security Division at the Department of Justice, to...
U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves - over internet cables
SINGAPORE It started out as strictly business: a huge private contract for one of the world’s most advanced undersea fiber-optic cables. It became a trophy in a growing proxy war between the United States and China over technologies that could determine who achieves economic and military dominance for decades to come.
How the President Can Shape the Role and Oversight of the National Cyber Director
The White House has its first Senate-confirmed national cyber director, but the position’s role in the executive branch hasn’t been spelled out yet. President Biden’s May executive order on cybersecurity deferred defining the national cyber director’s role until after his office was up and running. How could the president shape the position?
How the President Can Shape the Role and Oversight of the National Cyber Director
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With The White House has its first Senate-confirmed national cyber director, but the position’s role in the executive branch hasn’t been spelled out yet. President Biden’s May executive order on cybersecurity deferred defining the national cyber director’s role until after his office was up and running. How could the president shape the position?
Congress Has Already Authorized the President to Require Reporting of Foreign Cyberattacks
Currently, there is no single federal requirement and no uniform process for private companies to report cyberattacks and incidents to the federal government. Companies face only a patchwork of vague disclosure requirements imposed by state privacy laws, the Federal Trade Commission, securities laws, and industry-specific regulatory bodies.
Congress Has Already Authorized the President to Require Reporting of Foreign Cyberattacks
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With Currently, there is no single federal requirement and no uniform process for private companies to report cyberattacks and incidents to the federal government. Companies face only a patchwork of vague disclosure requirements imposed by state privacy laws, the Federal Trade Commission, securities laws, and industry-specific regulatory bodies.
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