Equipment and services the FCC has found to pose an unacceptable risk to national security.
The FCC imposes a $25,000 monetary forfeiture on Cogito Tech Company Limited for willfully or repeatedly failing to respond to an Enforcement Bureau Letter of Inquiry concerning possible U.S. marketing of radiofrequency equipment on the Covered List, specifically foreign-produced drones (UAS or UAS critical components).
The FCC proposes a $188,491 forfeiture against each of Hytera Communications Corporation Limited and ZTE Corporation and orders each company to publicly update its Covered List affiliate disclosures after finding apparent willful and repeated violations of 47 CFR § 2.903(d).
The report concludes that FCC denials and revocations of the three PRC state-controlled carriers’ Section 214 authority did not remove their U.S. infrastructure, network relationships, or parent-controlled routing access, leaving a distinct national-security risk.
The FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau adds foreign-produced power inverters and advanced robotic devices to the FCC Covered List based on Executive Branch national-security determinations.
The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology waives, through at least January 1, 2029, specified prohibitions on Class I and Class II permissive changes for previously authorized covered foreign-produced advanced robotic devices and power inverters.
The FCC adopts new equipment-authorization and marketing restrictions to address national-security risks in the communications supply chain, while seeking comment on additional Covered List and equipment-authorization measures.
The FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) and Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) initiate a proceeding requiring Odyssey Robot LLC to show cause why the Commission should not revoke two equipment authorizations that the bureaus tentatively find were obtained through false representations concerning Covered List equipment.
The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau and Office of Engineering and Technology propose limiting existing equipment authorizations to prohibit the continued importation and marketing of specified covered UAS, UAS critical components, and section 1709 communications and video-surveillance equipment.
The FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau adds Digitalsystem Technology Inc.’s section 214 international telecommunications services to the FCC Covered List based on a national-security determination by the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the U.S. Telecommunications Services Sector.
The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau and Office of Engineering and Technology prohibit the continued importation and marketing of previously authorized covered communications equipment added to the Covered List in 2024 or earlier, while preserving existing users’ ability to operate equipment they already possess.
The FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau removes foreign-produced “Toy Drones” and “Toy Drones that contain foreign-produced components” from the FCC Covered List based on a Department of War determination that they do not pose an unacceptable national-security or U.S.-person safety risk.
The FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology extends through at least January 1, 2029, and expands waivers allowing certain already-authorized covered UAS, UAS critical components, and routers to receive consumer-protective software and firmware updates.
The FCC proposes to exclude entities identified on the Covered List, including their current and future affiliates and subsidiaries, from blanket domestic section 214 authority and seeks comment on related national-security restrictions.
The FCC’s PSHSB and OET propose limiting existing equipment authorizations to prohibit the continued importation and marketing of communications equipment added to the Covered List in 2024 or earlier, while preserving the use and operation of equipment already purchased.
The FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) temporarily waives prohibitions on certain Class I permissive changes for covered routers authorized before the March 23, 2026, Covered List addition, allowing specified software and firmware updates through March 1, 2027.
The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau adds routers produced in a foreign country to the FCC Covered List, subject to Conditional Approvals from the Department of War (DoW) or Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The FCC adopts a risk-based framework requiring specified holders of Commission licenses, authorizations, permits, leases, grants, and other approvals to attest to and disclose whether they are subject to Foreign Adversary Control.
The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) temporarily waives prohibitions on certain Class I permissive changes for previously authorized covered uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and UAS critical components.
The FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau updates the Covered List to exempt specified uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and UAS critical components based on a January 7, 2026 Department of War national security determination.
The FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau adds foreign-produced uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), UAS critical components, and the communications and video surveillance equipment and services identified in section 1709(a)(1) of the FY2025 NDAA to the FCC Covered List.
The FCC strengthens its Covered List equipment-authorization regime by barring authorization of covered modular transmitters and devices containing them, creating a prospective process to stop importation and marketing of previously authorized covered equipment, and seeking further comment on related controls.
The FCC reiterates that equipment and services on its Covered List have been determined to pose unacceptable risks to U.S. national security and urges organizations and individuals to review the List and consider those risks.
The FCC modernizes and streamlines submarine cable landing-license rules while adopting new presumptions, certifications, reporting duties, and restrictions aimed at foreign-adversary and national-security risks.
The FCC seeks public input on whether and how to add certain connected-vehicle equipment and services subject to a Commerce Department determination to the Covered List.
The FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology and Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau confirm that equipment integrating Kaspersky cybersecurity or anti-virus software is prohibited from obtaining FCC equipment authorization.
The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau adds Kaspersky Lab, Inc.’s cybersecurity and anti-virus software to the FCC’s Covered List based on a Department of Commerce ICTS Final Determination finding unacceptable national-security and U.S.-person security risks.
The D.C. Circuit upheld the FCC’s prohibition on authorizing Hikvision and Dahua equipment for covered national-security uses, but vacated the FCC’s overbroad definition of “critical infrastructure” and remanded for further explanation.
The FCC adopts rules barring authorization, marketing, and importation of communications equipment identified on the Commission’s Covered List and adopts related procedures, an interim freeze, and further proposed changes.
The FCC adopts rules barring authorization, marketing, and importation of communications equipment identified on the FCC Covered List, while seeking further comment on additional equipment-authorization and competitive-bidding safeguards.
The FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau adds the international section 214 services of Pacific Networks Corp. (PacNet), ComNet (USA) LLC, and China Unicom (Americas) Operations Limited to the Covered List.
The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau adds Kaspersky-branded information-security products and specified China Mobile and China Telecom services to the Communications Act Section 2 Covered List, including the named entities’ subsidiaries and affiliates.
The Fifth Circuit denied Huawei’s petition for review, holding that the FCC acted within its statutory authority and did not violate the Administrative Procedure Act or the Constitution by barring universal-service funds from being used for equipment or services supplied by designated national-security risks.
The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau announced and published the first Covered List under section 2 of the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 and the Commission’s supply-chain rules.
Every record filed that week, with references. Sent from newsletter.natsecnoir.com.