On May 15, White House order to secure technology supply chain.
Executive order to secure info, communications technology, services supply chain.
Prevent foreign adversary from creating, exploiting vulnerabilities in infrastructure.
Store, transmit sensitive data, facilitate digital economy, support vital emergency services threatened by malicious cyber-enabled actions, incl. economic, industrial espionage. Unrestricted use augments adversary's ability to harm national security.
Balance need for open investment climate with protection of info security, integrity.
Assert national emergency under IEEPA, national emergency act, USC Title 3.301.
Implementation
Prohibited to acquire, import, transfer install, deal in, use any technology if interest of foreign country, national involved, whether pending, initiated, completed by date.
Applied to foreign adversary control, at risk of sabotage, subversion of US interests.
Impacts security, resiliency of US critical infrastructure, risk to US national security.
Applied, except where not, by statute, rule, order, directive, prior license, contracts.
Authorities
Treasury secretary may consult other agency heads, authorized to take action, direct timing, manner of cessation, adopt rules, employ other powers granted under IEEPA.
All US agencies directed to take appropriate measures to carry out order provisions.
Determine which countries, persons are adversaries, identify technologies, countries.
Establish procedures to license transactions otherwise prohibited pursuant to order, criteria by which technologies may be recognized as included or excluded from EO.
Identify mechanism, factors for agreement negotiations to mitigate concerns raised.
Within 150 days of this order, authorized parties to publish rules to implement order.
Reports
Submit recurring, final reports to Congress on national emergency declared via order.
Continue to assess threats, write assessment reports to President, secretary, heads.
Initial assessment report to be completed within 40 days of order date, then annual.
Analysis to include threats raised by technologies, to US govt, infrastructure, entity.
Hardware, software, services relied upon by providers, incl. those identified with sect. 9 of Feb. 12, 2013 EO improving critical infrastructure cybersecurity, follows #6049.
General
Nothing in order to be construed to impair authority granted by law to exec. agency, functions of director office of management, budget, be consistent with all regulations.
Order does not create any benefit, right by any party against the US, depts, agencies.
May 14, 2020 Continuation of EO
On May 14, 2020, White House continued national emergency to secure information, communications tech supply chain, extended by additional 1 year, in federal register.
Oct. 2020 US State Dept. Remarks
On Oct. 21, 2020, US State Dept released Secretary Pompeo's remarks on White House's national strategy for critical and emerging technologies to keep leadership.
Pompeo said strategy outlines how US will maintain global leadership in conventional weapons, AI, semiconductor, and space technologies versus China and Russia.
Said US is also pushing back on Chinese communist propaganda efforts at home.
State Department designating the US operations of six China-based media companies as foreign missions, as they are effectively controlled by a foreign government.
Not placing any restrictions on what these outlets can publish in the United States.
Simply ensuring that American people, consumers of information, can differentiate between news written by a free press and propaganda distributed by the China.
May 11, 2021 White House Emergency Extension
On May 11, 2021, White House President Biden issued notice extending EO declaring a national emergency with respect to securing the technology supply chain for one year.
Letter transmitted to inform Congress; notice set to be published in federal register.
May 13, 2021 Fed Reg White House Extension
On May 13, 2021, White House issued notice extending EO, in the federal register.
On Jun. 9, 2021, White House issued EO to further address EO 13873, see #107811.
May 2022 White House EO Continuation
On May 12, 2022, White House issued continuation for 1 year the national emergency in EO 13873 on securing info, communications technology, services supply chain.
May 13, 2022 Fed Register EO Continuation
On May 13, 2022, White House issued continuation of EO 13873, in federal register.
May 2023 White House Continuation
On May 10, 2023, White House issued continuation of national emergency with respect to securing information, communications technology, supply chain until May 12, 2024.
May 11, 2023 Fed Reg Continuation
On May 11, 2023, White House published continuation of EO 13873 in federal register.
In Feb. 2024, White House issued EO expanding the scope of EO 13873, #202701.
