Jurisdiction, Classification, & Confidence

November 5th 2026, 12:00 EST

Presented by Defense Trade Solutions in partnership with Skill Dynamics, this one hour webinar offers a practical deep dive into ITAR and EAR Jurisdiction & Classification (JCA), with special attention to "specially designed" analysis, so participants can confidently determine whether items, tech data, and software fall under ITAR or EAR, avoid mixed jurisdiction pitfalls, and reduce deemed export risk; we'll also examine where AI can, and cannot, help in JCA workflows, emphasizing a human in the loop verification model.

Agenda:
• Jurisdiction fundamentals (ITAR vs. EAR)
• Order of Review Deep Dive
• Deemed exports & tech data safeguarding
• AI for JCA
• Q&A and next steps

Target Audience:
• Export compliance leaders, trade compliance analysts, and in house counsel at aerospace/defense and dual use tech firms (including large primes and their supplier networks).
• Engineering, product, and data teams handling controlled technical data, software, or AI/ML tools in global programs.

Steven Casazza brings two decades of experience shaping defense trade and export strategies. Today Steven leads Defense Trade Solutions – helping aerospace and defense companies remove friction, navigate complex regulations, and accelerate approvals by translating policy into practical processes – aligning commercial growth with U.S. national security and foreign policy priorities while moving at the speed of business. He previously served as an ITAR Empowered Official, building global trade compliance programs at mid-tier defense firms, operationalizing Technology Security & Foreign Disclosure (TSFD) requirements to secure export policy approvals for critical technologies, and helped establish Foreign Military Sales (FMS) & Direct Commercial Sales (DCS) export policy and export-control reform requirements while supporting the Department of Defense. He is a serving member of the Department of State's Defense Trade Advisory Group and Vice Chair of the National Defense Industrial Association International Division.