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Last year, Congress passed the defense spending bill that included a provision barring all federal agencies from purchasing Huawei and ZTE equipment due to concerns Chinese technology contained within those devices may pose a national security concern.
One year later, the new prohibition will take effect August 13th – this prohibition also includes Chinese companies Hytera and Hikvision. Next year, federal conttractors will be subject to this prohibition, although waivers will be available to contractors on a case-by-case basis.
Huawei has challenged the ban in court but no decision has been made.