BIS Planning to Implement More Emerging Tech Controls This Fiscal Year, Official Says
The Bureau of Industry and Security plans to implement more emerging technology controls during this fiscal year, Karen Nies-Vogel, BIS’s director of the Office of Exporter Services, said, speaking briefly during an Oct. 28 meeting of the Emerging Technology Technical Advisory Committee. Nies-Vogel said the agency has so far issued 38 emerging technology controls and is “looking forward” to implementing more in the coming months and “years to come.”
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The agency has recently faced criticism from Republican lawmakers for moving too slowly on its emerging and foundational technology effort (see 2110250035), even as it issued a final rule this month for controls over certain biological equipment software (see 2110040009) and a pre-rule for potential controls over brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies (see 2110250011).
Nies-Vogel said she appreciates members of the ETTAC helping BIS with that effort by providing the agency “access” to technology and industry experts. “At BIS we think of ourselves as small but mighty,” he said. “And we know that one of the reasons that we are able to hit above our weight is the contribution from our technical advisory committees, certainly including the ETTAC.”