Impact Study Working Group News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

[co-author: Tawanna Lee] On December 17, 2020, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) Task Force (“the Task Force”)—a public-private partnership whose membership includes industry representatives from the IT and Communications sectors, as well as federal government representatives—released its Year Two Report (“Report”). This work takes on increased importance as the federal government and private sector grapple with software supply chain challenges in the unfolding SolarWinds incident. The Report builds on prior Task Force efforts ...

Building a Trusted ICT Supply Chain (Supply Chain), 56 are intended to be taken up in legislation, and many others rely on administrative actions from agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of Commerce, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Importantly, while these recommendations are targeted at actions in the public policy and legislative space, they could have widescale impacts on the private sector to include companies doing business with the federal g...