Secretary of State John Kerry, in consultation with the Attorney General and Treasury Secretary, revoked the designation of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia as a foreign terrorist organization. The Colombian government fought the paramilitary group for years of recent conflict, and the group was also actively involved in drug trafficking.

The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) is asking industry members who submitted DS2032 registration submitted between 3:50 p.m. on June 25 and 9:30 a.m. on June 26 to resubmit the registrations through the Electronic Forms Submission page (here) due to a system glitch. There was no information compromised during that time period, and the glitch has been corrected, said DDTC.

The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls canceled an Aug. 14 in-house seminar. The seminars are one-day instructional sessions that cover export licensing.

The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) will undergo maintenance on June 27 from 6:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. EDT. DTrade system will be unavailable to accept submissions during that time, DDTC said. The pmddtc.state.gov website, as well as EFS, TRS, ELLIE, and MARY external systems will also be offline.

The State Department issued a final rule to edit certain text and provide conforming updates to the Jan. 2 Export Control Reform rule that transfers items from five U.S. Munitions List categories to the Commerce Control List (see 14010302). The Jan. 2 rule, effective July 1, revises USML Categories IV (Launch Vehicles, Guided Missiles, Ballistic Missiles, Rockets, Torpedoes, Bombs, and Mines), V (Explosives and Energetic Materials, Propellants, Incendiary Agents, and their Constituents), IX (Military Training Equipment), X (Personal protective equipment), and XVI (Nuclear Weapons Related Articles). The correction also removes a note on cluster munitions in the revisions to the regulations because it created confusion with existing U.S. policy, State said in the correction.

The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls published on June 24 an updated version of guidelines designed to help the trade community electronically navigate the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and other aspects of defense trade policy.

The State Department, in consultation with the Departments of Justice and Treasury, designated Shawki Ali Ahmed al-Badani a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. The designation includes a prohibition against U.S. persons engaging in transactions with al-Badani. State also froze the property and interests of al-Badani in the U.S., along with property and interests that come into the U.S. or in control of U.S. persons. Al-Badani is a leader and operative for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, State said.

The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls ordered on June 16 Intersil Corporation to pay $10 million in penalties for approximately 3,152 export transactions of radiation hardened parts without DDTC authorization and in violation of the Arms Export Control Act. The exports transactions took place between 2005 and 2010, DDTC said. Intersil exported the products to customers in Belgium, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. DDTC ordered Intersil to pay $6 million to the State Department as penalty. DDTC is suspending an additional $4 million on the condition Intersil applied this amount to remedial compliance measures. The company is permitted to continue exporting goods.

The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls updated DTrade online forms, DS2032, and Common Schema to support the January Export Control Reform rule that transfers commodities from five U.S. Munitions List categories to the Commerce Control List. State will not accept earlier versions of these forms after July 1.

The State Department issued a notice to confirm the defense trade debarment of Carlos Dominguez. State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls delivered the debarment order initially on June 4 (see 14060611). Dominguez is principal of Elliot S.A., Spain Night Vision S.A., and SNV S.A.