A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget looks to open up the process for deciding who should and shouldn’t be supplying the federal government with technology based on threats to national security.
OMB laid out procedures and criteria for the evaluation of supply chain risk information that could result in orders that federal agencies remove or exclude certain products from their acquisitions.
The details are included in an interim final rule set to publish in the Federal Register Tuesday which will be open to public comment over the next 60 days.
Under the SECURE Technologies Act, signed into law at the end of 2018, the Federal Acquisition Security Council, an interagency group chaired by a senior OMB official, has the power to recommend the removal or exclusion from the federal government of information and communications technology that the council determines presents an unacceptable threat to critical infrastructure.
The council includes representation from the General Services Administration, Homeland Security Department, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, the Justice Department, the FBI, the Defense Department, the National Security Agency, the Commerce Department, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and “any other executive agency, or agency component, as determined by the chairperson of the FASC.”
The secretaries of DHS and DOD, as well as the DNI, would issue any recommended orders for their respective jurisdictions.
“Initiation of the process can begin either by referral of the FASC or any member of the FASC; upon the written request of any ..
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