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The Department of Defense, General Services Administration and NASA are issuing an interim final rule prohibiting agencies from purchasing telecommunications and video surveillance equipment from selected Chinese vendors. The rule amends the Federal Acquisition Regulation to include a section of the fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act and covers all existing indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contracts seeking services or equipment for securing and monitoring critical government infrastructure. 

Questions have been swirling about Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski’s new net neutrality proposal since he first laid it out it out last week. It would enshrine the concept of treating all Internet traffic equally into law, but it also held out the carrot of allowing Internet providers to …

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, the nation’s top telecom regulator, voiced support yesterday for a new set of regulations on net neutrality, which would require Internet service providers to treat all Internet traffic equally, known as net neutrality. Genachowski called the proposed regulations part of “the road to preserve …