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Impact Networking Expands Its Texas Footprint with New Office in Austin

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Impact Networking Expands Its Texas Footprint with New Office in Austin

Managed IT Service Provider of the Houston Astros Announces Office Opening in the State Capital of Texas

Impact Networking, a national managed service provider (MSP), announced today that it has leased office space in Austin, Texas, due to the immense popularity of its work in Houston. This sales, service, and technology showroom is expected to open May 1. It is centrally situated in the state capital of Texas to offer fast and personal service, giving clients access to experts in managed IT, cybersecurity, marketing, and more.

Founded in 1999, Impact integrates technology, expertise, and outstanding customer service to help clients solve the most pressing business problems and identify new opportunities in engaging and insightful ways, making them faster, more productive, and more secure. Specializing in managed IT, cybersecurity, digital transformation, marketing, and print services, Impact provides clients with the sustainable competitive advantages necessary for them to thrive in an increasingly digital world today, tomorrow, and for the next 10 years.

In August 2021, Impact announced its multi-year partnership with the Houston Astros as the official managed IT service provider of the MLB team. A few months later, the company announced its new office location in Texas at Midway’s much anticipated East River development in Houston, expected to open June 1.

Impact is headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois, and currently supports thousands of organizations from 23 branches across the United States. For more information about Impact and its managed services, visit www.impactmybiz.com.

About Impact Networking

Impact Networking is a national managed service provider (MSP) that offers managed IT, cybersecurity, digital transformation, marketing, and print services to businesses of all sizes. Founded in 1999, Impact integrates technology, expertise, and outstanding customer service to help clients solve the most pressing business problems and identify new opportunities in engaging and insightful ways, making them faster, more productive, and more secure. Today, Impact employs more than 900 industry experts and supports thousands of businesses from 23 locations across the Unites States.

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BIS Requests Comments from Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Semiconductor Supply Chains on Supply Chain Vulnerabilities

The Department of Commerce’s (“Commerce”) Bureau of Industry & Security (“BIS”) recently issued requests for comment on risks to the information communications and technology (“ICT”) and semiconductor supply chains. These comments are being requested as part of the U.S. government’s broader review of supply chain vulnerabilities.

ICT Supply Chain Request for Comment:

Executive Order 14017 (“EO 14017”) requires Commerce and the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) to issue a report on supply chains for critical sectors and subsectors of the ICT industrial base. The recent Federal Register notice, published on September 20, 2021, describes the ICT industrial basis as: (a) hardware that enables terrestrial distribution, broadcast/wireless transport, satellite support, data storage to include data center and cloud technologies, and end user devices including home devices such as routers, antennae, and receivers, and mobile devices; (b) critical software; and (c) services that have direct dependencies on one or more of the enabling hardware. BIS seeks comments on eleven (11) topics, which are described in further detail in the notice and which we summarize below:

-“Critical goods and materials,” as defined in EO 14017, Section 6(b);

-“Other essential goods and materials,” as defined in EO 14017, Section 6(d);

-Manufacturing, or other capabilities necessary to produce or supply “critical goods and materials” and “other essential goods and materials”;

-Supply chain disruption and compromise threats such as cyber, health, climate, environmental, geopolitical, forced-labor, and other risks;

-Resilience and capacity of domestic ICT supply chains to support domestic requirements as described in EO 14017, such as national, economic, and information security;

-Allies’ and partners’ actions on ICT supply chains;

-Primary causes of risks for any vulnerable aspects of the ICT supply chain;

-Prioritization of “critical goods and materials” and “other essential goods and materials” to identify options and policy recommendations;

-Specific policy recommendations for ensuring a resilient ICT supply chain;

-Executive, legislative, regulatory, and policy changes needed to strengthen domestic ICT supply chain manufacturing and prevent supply chain disruption and compromise; and

-Suggested improvements to the government-wide effort to strengthen supply chains.

Comments on the ICT supply chain are due by November 4, 2021.

Semiconductor Supply Chain Request for Comment:

On September 24, 2021, BIS published a Federal Register notice which requests comments from interested parties, especially domestic and foreign semiconductor designers, manufacturers, material/equipment suppliers, as well as intermediate and end-users. Any interested party may submit comments, however. The BIS notice includes a questionnaire for semiconductor designers, manufacturers, and microelectronic assemblers, and their suppliers and distributors, as well as a questionnaire for intermediate and end-users of semiconductor products or integrated circuits. The questions mainly cover the production process and focus on disruptions to the semiconductor and integrated circuit inventories of intermediate and end-users. Interested parties should note before filing comments at regulations.gov that BIS requires commenters fill out an Excel spreadsheet form posted on BIS’ website to be completed and filed along with the comments. Comments on the semiconductor supply chain (including a completed form) are due by November 8, 2021.

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Cortney O’Toole Morgan is a Washington D.C.-based partner with the law firm Husch Blackwell LLP. She leads the firm’s International Trade & Supply Chain group.

Grant Leach is an Omaha-based partner with the law firm Husch Blackwell LLP focusing on international trade, export controls, trade sanctions and anti-corruption compliance.

Tony Busch is an attorney in Husch Blackwell LLP’s Washington, D.C. office.