ITI: New FAR Guidance Can Help Achieve Supply Chain Risk Management
WASHINGTON – Today, global tech trade association ITI reacted to the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council’s interim rule to standardize supply chain risk information sharing involving federal contracting and procurement. This interim rule implements exclusion or removal orders consistent with the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act (FASCSA).
“Protecting federal networks, data, infrastructure, and endpoint devices is one of the core responsibilities of the U.S. government,” said ITI Executive Vice President of Policy Gordon Bitko. “ITI is supportive of the federal government’s desire to cultivate government-wide FASCSA implementation as the primary approach to supply chain risk management. Concurrently, ITI calls on the federal government to develop a robust and coherent interagency federal information and communications technology supply chain risk management strategy. That strategy must be dynamic and consider the full range of threats, real agency risk tolerance, and other possible mitigation steps.”