Title: Supply Chain Security Training Act of 2021
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 executive agencies.
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 promulgate guidance to federal agencies requiring executive agency adoption and use of the program.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2201 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2201

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 23, 2021

Mr. Peters (for himself and Mr. Johnson) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
                        and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 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 
executive 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.--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--
            (1) allow executive agencies to incorporate the training 
        program into existing agency training programs; and
            (2) provide guidance on how to identify executive agency 
        officials with supply chain risk management responsibilities.

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