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Cyber

Senate Passes Supply Chain Counterintelligence Bill

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, November 13th, 2019

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Senate Passes Supply Chain Counterintelligence Bill

The Senate last week unanimously approved a bill requiring program and acquisition officials for federal information communications technology receive counterintelligence training related to supply chain risk management. The Supply Chain Counterintelligence Training Act (S. 1388) directs the Office of Management and Budget, working with the Director of National Intelligence, Department of Homeland Security, and General Services Administration, to develop and implement a counterintelligence training program to help program and acquisition officials “identify and mitigate counterintelligence threats that arise during the…

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