Supply Chain Security Training Act of 2021

To manage supply chain risk through counterintelligence training, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Supply Chain Security Training Act of 2021 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 threats 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 (2) be updated as determined to be necessary by the Administrator. (c) Coordination and consultation In developing 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 and the Director of National Intelligence. (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 (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. 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. 4. Definitions In this Act: (1) Appropriate congressional committees and leadership The term appropriate congressional committees (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 (3) Executive agency The term executive agency (4) Federal agency The term Federal agency (5) Training program The term training program

Summary: Supply Chain Security Training Act of 2021 This bill requires the Federal Acquisition Institute to develop a training program for officials with supply chain risk management responsibilities at federal agencies (defined to include the legislative and judicial branches, as well as the executive branch, of the federal government). The program shall be designed to prepare such personnel to perform supply chain risk management activities and identify and mitigate supply chain security threats that arise throughout the acquisition life cycle, including for the acquisition of information and communications technology. The Office of Management and Budget shall (1) promulgate guidance to federal agencies requiring executive agency adoption and use of the program, and (2) make the guidance available to federal agencies of the legislative and judicial branches.