The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is seeking comment, due April 30, on a proposed NPRM on “Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain,” said a notice for Friday’s Federal Register. The rulemaking is intended to assist BIS “in determining the technologies and market participants that may be most appropriate for regulation” under a 2019 executive order by former President Donald Trump, the notice said.
A senior research analyst from Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology cautioned Thursday that in some locations the cost of replacing Chinese hardware in information technology networks with more expensive alternatives outweighs the benefits. Jack Corrigan told the China Economic and Security Review Commission at a Thursday hearing that procurement bans should be targeted at "high-risk sectors, networks and use cases."