From: E-Commerce Times
By John K. Higgins
“The product code approach greatly expands complexity and creates ambiguities, making it impractical to be useful as a guide. There are just too many categories to align for most agencies to use productively,” said David Bodenheimer, a partner and federal contracting law specialist at Crowell & Moring. “There is no reason greater security has to lead to a more protracted process.”
Protecting supply lines is essential to military success. But the U.S. government has now launched an initiative designed to protect the supply chain of both civilian and military agencies from potential cyberattacks.
The effort will be especially important in the e-commerce procurement process. In fact, the information and communications technology segment of the federal IT market potentially covered by the program involves 322 products and services with a total 2013 fiscal year value of US$62.8 billion. The initiative is being managed jointly by the General Services Administration and the U.S. Department of Defense.
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