Tech bills of the week: Limiting adversaries’ access to US tech; and boosting cyber apprenticeships

This week’s proposals are focused on blocking adversaries from gaining access to critical U.S. technologies and manufacturing capabilities, as well as addressing the nation’s cyber workforce shortage.

Expanding export controls on foreign adversaries

New legislation introduced by Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Mo., on Monday looks to bolster the federal government’s export control regime on sensitive U.S. technologies to ensure that adversarial nations are not able to leverage the capabilities to further their own economic ambitions.

Wagner said the measure, the Export Control Enforcement and Enhancement Act, would modernize U.S. restrictions on accessing sensitive technologies and “streamline the ability of the Departments of State, Defense, and Energy to quickly modify the list of foreign entities—ranging from governments to companies and research institutions—that pose a serious risk to our national security.”

Foreign adversaries, like China, have used U.S.-made semiconductors to bolster the development ...