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In a recently published document addressing supply chain risk, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence warns against “foreign attempts to compromise the integrity, trustworthiness, and authenticity of products and services purchased and integrated into the operations of the U.S. Government, the Defense Industrial Base, and the private sector.”
Attacks on the supply chain represent “a complex and growing threat to strategically important U.S. economic sectors and critical infrastructure,” the agency notes. Foreign adversaries are attacking key supply chains at multiple points: From concept to design, manufacture, integration, deployment and maintenance.
GovCon leaders say the government does well to take the risks seriously, and they point to ways in which the contracting community can work hand-in-glove with federal officials to mitigate the threat.
“ODNI is definitely right to be concerned,” said Justin Shirk, vice president of asymmetric analytics at Novetta. “An area of real emerging risk on which we focus is in the provenance of software, both open-source or commercial. This is unfortunately inherently…
