Stakeholders: Supply-chain efforts, including pending ICT rule, require enhanced commitment to collaboration

The complexities of a long-awaited Commerce Department rulemaking on information and communications technology supply-chain security underscore the need for close collaboration among federal agencies and with industry groups, according to stakeholders, who say getting the rule right is more important than rushing it into place.

“There was an abundance of associations, private sector companies that responded to” the ICT supply-chain notice of proposed rulemaking last November, Diane Rinaldo, a former senior Commerce Department official, said Tuesday during a webinar...