NTIA playbooks outline Software Bill of Materials considerations for suppliers, acquisition purposes

Stakeholders in a Commerce Department initiative are providing potential “workflows” for the production of a Software Bill of Materials throughout the software supply chain cycle, along with details on utilization in the acquisition process, in two recently published playbooks.

The initiative led by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration has developed several work products over the past few years to explain what an SBOM is and how it can be used as a tool to help organizations illuminate their...