Export compliance programs, built to be sustainable.
SW Consulting builds export compliance programs that hold up after we've handed them off — practical ITAR and EAR programs, grounded in real risk assessment and classification, that your team can actually run. Led by a longtime Empowered Official who has built and defended these programs firsthand.
One compliance program that answers to both DDTC and BIS.
Gap & Risk Assessment
Assess your program against DDTC and BIS expectations, and classify your products and technical data under both the USML and the CCL.
Written Compliance Program
A single export compliance manual built to satisfy DDTC's ICP elements and BIS's EMCP elements — one program, not two binders.
Technology & Access Controls
A Technology Control Plan covering personnel screening, physical security, technical-data access, and deemed-export and foreign-person controls.
Registration & Authorizations
DDTC registration (DS-2032) prepared for signature, plus jurisdiction, classification, and licensing procedures across ITAR and EAR.
Training & Awareness
Empowered Official, manager, and train-the-trainer sessions covering both ITAR and EAR obligations, so the program sticks after handoff.
Recordkeeping, Audits & Monitoring
Restricted-party screening, recordkeeping, self-assessments, and corrective-action tracking that keep you audit-ready under both regimes.
From gap analysis to an audit-ready program.
Assess & Classify
Gap and risk assessment against DDTC and BIS expectations, plus USML and CCL classification of your items and technical data.
Build
Draft one compliance manual (ICP / EMCP) and a Technology Control Plan, with the access and screening controls your facility needs.
Train
Stand up Empowered Official, manager, and train-the-trainer sessions across ITAR and EAR, so the program holds after handoff.
Register & Monitor
Prepare DDTC registration and the export authorizations your items require, then set up recordkeeping, audits, and monitoring to stay audit-ready.
Support that continues after registration.
Export & License Applications
Prepare and structure license applications for your Empowered Official to review, sign, and file.
Audit & Self-Assessment
Recurring DDTC self-audits and pre-audit readiness reviews, built on your monitoring checklist.
Product & Technology Classification
Ongoing commodity jurisdiction and USML/CCL classification as new products and technology arise.
Led by a longtime Empowered Official.
SW Consulting is led by Shawn Walker, a trade compliance and export controls leader with over a decade serving as a designated Empowered Official across aerospace, defense, maritime, satellite, and manufacturing environments. He has built and run global trade compliance programs, standardized controls across multi-site operations, and directed audits, investigations, and voluntary disclosures spanning DDTC, BIS, CBP, and Census requirements.
His work covers the full lifecycle of an ITAR and EAR program — risk assessment and classification, policy development, Technology Control Plan design, training, and DDTC registration and licensing — backed by more than two decades working in and around the federal contracting and regulatory community, and hands-on cross-border coordination with overseas manufacturing operations.
Know you need an export program — not sure where to start?
Most companies come to us knowing they have an export-control obligation but not the path to meet it. We'll help you see exactly what your program needs, and the right order to get there. The first consultation is a conversation, not a commitment.