Jason Chauvin
U.S. Department of Commerce
2025 fellow
Jason Chauvin is a Senior Engineer with the Sensors, Aerospace, and Marine Division at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s (DOC) Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). Mr. Chauvin joined BIS in January of 2021. BIS advances national security through technology leadership and vigilant export controls. Mr. Chauvin is the spacecraft lead and a license officer with expertise in Category 7: Navigation and Avionics, Category 8: Marine, and Category 9: Aerospace and Propulsion of the Export Administration Regulation (EAR).
Mr. Chauvin’s duties include representing DOC at interagency licensing discussions and engaging in multilateral export control regime regulation changes both at the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies and through industry working groups.
In his role as a White House Leadership Development Program Fellow, Mr. Chauvin joins the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) Office of Small Business, Market Access, and Industrial Competitiveness (SBMAIC) where he is working on a range of industrial trade policy issues.
Mr. Chauvin was previously at the Defense Contract Management Agency where he analyzed industrial capabilities and identified risks to military aerospace programs. His assessments recommended solutions through a mission assurance framework to ensure a robust, secure, resilient, and innovative defense industrial base.
Mr. Chauvin recently spearheaded DOC’s effort to evaluate and reform export controls related to space. This supported the National Space Council Vice President’s effort to bolster a globally competitive U.S. space industrial base while protecting our national security and foreign policy interests. BIS announced a series of rules to modernize space-related export controls. This approach will provide the maximum benefit to industry and U.S. allies by quickly implementing reforms under DOC authorities and continuing to coordinate with the interagency on jurisdictional changes.
Mr. Chauvin has a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. In his free time, he enjoys exploring trails on his bike, hiking local and national parks, traveling abroad, and in the winter months making his way down mountains skiing.
