Federal Acquisition Security Council, created under 2018 tech law, kicks off with first meeting

The Federal Acquisition Security Council held its first meeting this week to begin developing a national strategy for securing the government's supply chain from cyber and other threats, with the Defense Department's strict cybersecurity rules likely to serve as a model.

“We had our first meeting yesterday,” Joyce Corell, assistant director at the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said Wednesday at an American Bar Association luncheon on supply-chain risks.

Federal Chief Information Security Officer Grant Schneider was recently named...