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It’s Back – DCAA’s Non-Defense Audit Authority Revived

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 11.03.16

A recent DCAA policy memorandum lifted the moratorium on DCAA performing non-Defense audits, which (as discussed here) effectively applied only to incurred cost audits. Specifically, because DCAA has purportedly "met the requirement of less than 18 months of incurred cost inventory" outlined in the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act as of October 1, 2016, DCAA "may again provide full audit support for non-Defense agencies" and the Operations Directorate "has coordinated at the Executive level with [its] reimbursable customers to inform them that [its] audit services can resume."

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Client Alert | 6 min read | 09.11.25

U.S. Department of Commerce Partially Relaxes Export Controls on Syria

On August 28, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a final rule that modifies the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to reduce the number of export control restrictions on Syria, in alignment with Executive Order 14312, Providing For The Revocation of Syria Sanctions. The key adjustments made by this rule include the addition of new or expanded license exception eligibility for exports and reexports to Syria (which significantly broadens the number of items that can be exported or reexported to Syria) and the adoption of more permissive license review policies for exports and reexports to Syria....