• Back to the Basics with the ITAR & the EAR

Two Day Webinar

Back to the Basics with the ITAR & the EAR


Wednesday, October 15 & Thursday, October 16th, 2025
10:00 am – 4:00 pm EST

At Your Computer

Seminar Tuition - $925.00



AGENDA

DAY 1 ITAR: Wednesday, October 15th:

  • Presentation: “Overview of the ITAR & EAR” A look at the State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) & Commerce’s Bureau of Industry & Security (BIS).
  • Presentation: “Classification: The Order of Review, Specially Designed & the Commodity Jurisdiction Process” Learn how to classify your products effectively.
  • Presentation: “How to Determine If You Need an Export Authorization” Follow these steps to interpret the EAR.
  • Exercise: “My License Application”
  • Presentation: “Understanding Technical Data/Technology & the Public Domain/Published” Navigating through the intricacies of technical data.
  • Understanding State/DDTC and the ITAR
  • Presentation: “Exemptions & Exceptions” Shortcut: Learning the various exemptions and exceptions to avoid licensing.

DAY 2 EAR: Thursday, October 16th:

  • Presentation: “DECCS & SNAPR Export Authorizations” How to complete licenses IN DECCS under the ITAR, when to use a TAA and completing the Commerce 748P in SNAPR”.
  • Presentation: “Compliance: Marking & Controlling Data, Recordkeeping” Beginning your compliance program.
  • Presentation: “Conducting Your Shipment” Using ACE & AES & how to deal with a freight forwarder
  • Exercise: “Licensing Approval & Compliance”
  • Presentation: “What to Do When You Find a Violation” How to disclose to State, Defense Trade Controls Compliance (DTCC) and Commerce, Office of Export Enforcement (OEE).
  • Presentation: “Notable Violations” Surprising moves by Commerce, Office of Export
    Enforcement (OEE) and State/DDTC ”

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LOCATION
Your Computer


INSTRUCTORS

Suzanne Palmer, President, Export Compliance Solutions, a former Licensing Officer at the State Department, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC), with 20 years of direct experience in the U.S. defense industry. After leaving the State Department, Ms. Palmer joined Northrop Grumman’s Electronic Systems in Baltimore and then went on to work at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. Ms. Palmer combined this unique experience to found ECS in 2003. The ECS team provides training to help compliance officials successfully apply U.S. export control regulations and establish viable export compliance programs. Ms. Palmer has worked on the Defense Trade Advisory Group (DTAG), was appointed to serve as a Special Compliance Officer (SCO) for a company operating under a Consent Agreement and is an active speaker for various professional organizations.

 

Lisa Bencivenga has over twenty seven years of varied experience in export/import licensing and compliance issues with major defense contractors. She has had the leading role in developing and implementing internal compliance programs, providing regulatory guidance, instituting license databases, training personnel at all corporate levels, conducting audits requested by clients and/or directed by the U.S. Department of State, coordinating investigations and working closely with legal departments while administering the full spectrum of corporate international export/import activities. She has several years of experience in space-related export issues which includes obtaining and implementing complex licensing arrangements related to spacecraft and launch activities as a result of her employment with Orbital Sciences Corporation and The Boeing Company.










SEMINAR POLICIES & CREDITS

CLE Credits: ECS will seek accrediations for those attendees interested in receiving CLE credit in the state of Maryland.

NEI/NCBFAA Credits: ECS will seek accrediations for those attendees interested in receiving CLE credit in the state of Maryland.

CANCELLATION POLICY: Participants may cancel and attend another class. Substitute attendees are also allowed. No cash refunds will be made without 72 hours advance notice.

If you are a returning attendee, please contact us for a discount promo code.

Back to the Basics with the ITAR & the EAR

  • Product Code: WEBINAR-TWODAY-25
  • $925.00


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