supply chain
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The focus on supply chain risks has been receiving a lot of attention lately.
March 12, 2018 -
The Department of Homeland Security launched an internal supply chain initiative aimed at identifying some of the cyber defense gaps between the federal government and its contractors.
February 15, 2018 -
The Army Materiel Command is working with its vast supply chain to tighten things up in a methodology known as prepositioning.
October 13, 2017 -
The Homeland Security Department issued their fifth binding operational directive on Sept. 13.
September 13, 2017 -
Does anyone need reminding of the thoroughly international content of PCs, smartphones, network switching equipment? And pencils?
April 18, 2017 -
According to the Government Accountability Office, Defense Department's planning to improve asset management don’t include adequate performance measures. That’s one reason DoD supply chain management is still on GAO’s High Risk List. Zina Merritt is director of Defense capability and management issues at GAO, told Federal Drive with Tom Temin about DoD’s ongoing asset visibility problems.
March 24, 2017 -
More than a dozen industry technology and business groups are asking the House to adopt language in the Senate's Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill that would focus on risk when buying technology products and services from companies that have connections to China.
December 10, 2013 -
Mort Rosenberg of the Constitution Project details the implications of a recent court ruling on recess appointments by the Obama administration. Cameron Leuthy of Bloomberg Government talks about nine civilian agency programs that look particularly ripe for a little carving. OFPP Administrator Joe Jordan discusses data collection. Al Banghart of Deloitte Consulting LLP discusses why federal agencies and Congress are concerned about the supply chain.
January 31, 2013 -
Two senior senators will introduce an amendment to the DoD authorization bill to increase the oversight over the IT supply chain. A preliminary report from GAO finds counterfeit technology parts easily making their way into weapons systems.
November 09, 2011 -
Over the course of the base-plus-three-years contract, LMI will provide metrics and analysis of metrics for the Department of Defense (DoD) supply chain, shepherd policy and issuance actions, support DoD\'s Comprehensive Inventory Improvement Plan, and provide general consulting services.
June 21, 2011 -
Despite a 2006 mandate to secure mobile devices and implement two-factor authentication, only just over half of federal agencies have managed to do so. OMB submits its annual FISMA report to Congress detailing the steps the government has taken to improve cybersecurity, including spending $12 billion on cybersecurity last year.
March 21, 2011 -
GAO\'s Jack Edwards gives highlights of the report on defense
January 13, 2011 -
CACI International and the U.S. Naval Institute released a report national security and assessing cyber threats specifically on global supply chains.
September 21, 2010 -
A new report finds the vast majority of U.S. supply chains rely on information technologies that can be compromised at any time. We get details from Tom Wilkerson, CEO of the Naval Institute.
August 06, 2010 -
Federal and state governments need to evaluate their supply chain capabilities in preparation for national emergencies. Robert Handfield, author of an IBM Center for The Business of Government report, explains.
July 19, 2010