Supply Chain Security Training Act of 2021
Bill: S.2201 | Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. (D-MI)
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

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 risks 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.

[117th Congress Public Law 145]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 117-145
117th Congress

                                 An Act


 
 To manage supply chain risk through counterintelligence training, and 
        for other purposes. <<NOTE: June 16, 2022 -  [S. 2201]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Supply Chain 
Security Training Act of 2021. 41 USC 1703 note.>> 
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.-- <<NOTE: Deadline.>> 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. <<NOTE: Deadline.>> --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

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                    (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 <<NOTE: Time period.>>  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.

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            (5) Training program.--The term ``training program'' means 
        the training program developed pursuant to section 2(a).

    Approved June 16, 2022.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 2201:
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SENATE REPORTS: No. 117-43 (Comm. on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 168 (2022):
            Jan. 11, considered and passed Senate.
            May 10, considered and passed House.

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