BIS Seeks Ideas By Nov. 4 on Reshoring ICT Supply Chains
Comments are due Nov. 4 at the Bureau of Industry and Security in docket BIS-2021-0021 to help the secretaries of Commerce and Homeland Security prepare a report to the White House on supply chain disruptions in the “critical sectors and…
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subsectors” of the information and communications technology “industrial base” by the one-year deadline of President Joe Biden’s Feb. 24 executive order, says Monday’s Federal Register. The notice seeks information on the “needed capacities” of the U.S. for “ICT design and manufacturing of products and services, including the ability to modernize to meet future needs.” The agency wants the public to identify “gaps” in U.S. design and manufacturing capabilities, “including nonexistent, extinct, threatened, or single-point-of failure capabilities,” it says. Commerce and Homeland Security “are specifically interested in comments related to validation standards of component and software integrity, standards and practices ensuring the availability and integrity of software delivery and maintenance,” says the notice. They want to know what “security controls” are in place “during the manufacturing phase of ICT hardware and components.” The agencies seek “specific policy recommendations important for ensuring a resilient supply chain for the ICT industrial base.” The recommendations may include strategies for “sustainably reshoring supply chains," says the notice. It’s not the goal of U.S. chipmakers to “onshore everything,” Semiconductor Industry Association CEO John Neuffer told a Sept. 8 Center for Strategic and International Studies webinar (see 2109090001). “We’re trying to diversify our supply chains and spread out our risk.”