September 27, 2024
House lawmakers have advanced a raft of bills aimed at bolstering supply chain security efforts, streamlining technology purchases and increasing cross-agency sharing of software code.
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Wednesday advanced 13 bills to the full House floor. Among them was the unanimously passed “Federal Acquisition Security Council Improvement Act,” which would bolster the council’s ability to ban products from federal supply chains.
The council was created as part of the SECURE Technology Act of 2018. It currently has the authority to issue recommendations for removing or excluding products and services from federal supply chains. Last fall, the Biden administration finalized acquisition rules for how contractors should comply with orders from the FASC.
But the House’s advancing legislation would authorize the FASC to directly issue binding removal and exclusion orders when directed to do so by Congress. It would also move the committee into the executive office of the president and set up a supporting FASC program office within the White House Office of the National Cyber Director.
Read more in the full article here: House lawmakers advance bills on acquisition security, IT procurement (federalnewsnetwork.com)
