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’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau announces that Department of War Conditional Approval exempts SpaceX Services, Inc.’s Starlink routers from the FCC Covered List, subject to a February 1, 2028 termination date.
The FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau excludes specified uncrewed aircraft systems and router classes from the Covered List because the Department of War granted Conditional Approvals for those devices.
The FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology institutes a proceeding to withdraw Shenzhen STS Test Services Co. Ltd.’s recognition as an accredited test laboratory based on its tentative determination that the laboratory willfully submitted false or inaccurate equipment test results.
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.
PSHSB announces that two routers received Department of War Conditional Approval and therefore are exempt from the FCC Covered List.
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’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau announces that the Department of War granted Conditional Approval for Gemtek Technology Co., Ltd.’s WRTQ-411BE and WNRFQQ-113BE routers, requiring their exclusion from the FCC Covered List through the approval period.
The FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau announces that the Department of War conditionally approved Vantiva USA, LLC’s CWA438TX router and therefore exempts that device from the FCC Covered List.
The FCC denies Digitalsystem Technology Inc.’s application for global facilities-based and global resale international section 214 authority because the record shows substantial national-security and law-enforcement risks that cannot be mitigated.
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’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) updates the Covered List to exclude specified uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), UAS critical components, and routers that received Department of War (DoW) Conditional Approvals.
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 Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau announces that specified uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), UAS critical components, and routers covered by Department of War Conditional Approvals are exempt from the FCC Covered List.
The FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau updates the Covered List to exempt specified foreign-produced uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), UAS critical components, and routers covered by Department of War Conditional Approvals.
The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) updates the FCC Covered List to exclude devices covered by Department of War (DoW) Conditional Approvals, including Innovation First International’s VEX AIR uncrewed aircraft system and Sagemcom USA’s specified routers.
The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau announces that specified foreign-produced routers have received Department of War Conditional Approvals and are therefore exempt from the FCC Covered List.
The FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) updates the Covered List to exempt UAS and UAS critical components receiving Department of War (DoW) Conditional Approvals, while publishing the current Covered List and related approval lists.
The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) updates the FCC Covered List to exclude specified routers that received Department of War (DoW) Conditional Approvals, including Nokia Corporation’s Beacons, Open Network Terminal (ONT) Based Beacons, and Fastmile Gateway routers.
The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau announces that Department of War Conditional Approvals require exclusion of specified uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), UAS critical components, and routers from the FCC Covered List.
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 Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau announces that specified uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), UAS critical components, and routers have received Department of War Conditional Approvals and are therefore exempt from the FCC Covered List.
PSHSB announces that the Department of War’s conditional approval of specified eero and Amazon Leo routers requires their exclusion from the FCC Covered List until October 31, 2027.
The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) updates the Covered List to exempt specified routers and uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and UAS critical components covered by Department of War (DoW) Conditional Approvals.
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’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau announces that four specified UAS or UAS-related product sets received Department of War conditional approvals and are therefore excluded from the FCC Covered List through December 31, 2026.
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 directs HKT and four wholly owned subsidiaries to show cause why their domestic and international section 214 authority should not be revoked or terminated based on national-security, law-enforcement, Covered List, compliance, and character concerns.
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 adopts rules barring untrusted or national-security-risk entities from participating in, or being relied upon for, the telecommunications equipment authorization program, while seeking comment on further safeguards.
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 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 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.
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