S. 2201 

One Hundred Seventeenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE SECOND SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and twenty two 

An Act 

To manage supply chain risk through counterintelligence training, and for other 

purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Supply Chain Security Training 

Act of 2021’’. 

SEC. 2. TRAINING PROGRAM TO MANAGE SUPPLY CHAIN RISK. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the date of 

the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of General Services, 

through the Federal Acquisition Institute, shall develop a training 

program for officials with supply chain risk management responsibilities at Federal agencies. 

(b) CONTENT.—The training program shall be designed to prepare such personnel to perform supply chain risk management 

activities and identify and mitigate supply chain security risks 

that arise throughout the acquisition lifecycle, including for the 

acquisition of information and communications technology. The 

training program shall— 

(1) include, considering the protection of classified and 

other sensitive information, information on current, specific 

supply chain security threats and vulnerabilities; and 

(2) be updated as determined to be necessary by the 

Administrator. 

(c) COORDINATION AND CONSULTATION.—In developing and 

determining updates to the training program, the Administrator 

shall— 

(1) coordinate with the Federal Acquisition Security 

Council, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director 

of the Office of Personnel Management; and 

(2) consult with the Director of the Department of Defense’s 

Defense Acquisition University, the Director of National Intelligence, and the Director of the National Institute of Standards 

and Technology. 

(d) GUIDANCE.— 

(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the training 

program is developed under subsection (a), the Director of 

the Office of Management and Budget shall promulgate guidance to Federal agencies requiring executive agency adoption 

and use of the training program. Such guidance shall— 

(A) allow executive agencies to incorporate the training 

program into existing agency training programs; and 
S. 2201—2 

(B) provide guidance on how to identify executive 

agency officials with supply chain risk management responsibilities. 

(2) AVAILABILITY.—The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall make the guidance promulgated under 

paragraph (1) available to Federal agencies of the legislative 

and judicial branches. 

SEC. 3. REPORTS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF PROGRAM. 

Not later than 180 days after the completion of the first course, 

and annually thereafter for the next three years, the Administrator 

of General Services shall submit to the appropriate congressional 

committees and leadership a report on implementation of the 

training program required under section 2. 

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 

In this Act: 

(1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES AND LEADERSHIP.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’ 

means— 

(A) the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Armed Services of 

the Senate; and 

(B) the Committee on Oversight and Reform and the 

Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives. 

(2) INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY.—The 

term ‘‘information and communications technology’’ has the 

meaning given the term in section 4713(k) of title 41, United 

States Code. 

(3) EXECUTIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘executive agency’’ has 

the meaning given the term in section 133 of title 41, United 

States Code. 

(4) FEDERAL AGENCY.—The term ‘‘Federal agency’’ means 

any agency, committee, commission, office, or other establishment in the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the 

Federal Government. 
S. 2201—3 

(5) TRAINING PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘training program’’ 

means the training program developed pursuant to section 

2(a). 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.