Roadmap

The System of Trust is aimed at bringing an improved consistent, scalable, tailorable approach for discussing, measuring, and managing supply chain security risks for organizations across government and critical infrastructure providers by leveraging the MITRE System of Trust (SoT) and its initial prototype activities and tools. This effort will provide web-based capabilities for industry, government, and academic participants to learn about, gain experience in applying, and help in evolving their ability to identify and manage the security of their supply chains, leading to enhanced trust of the suppliers, supplies/components and services in their respective and collective supply chains.

Continued tuning of the SoT framework through collaboration with stakeholders in different domains, and additional pilots and real-world application, will result in enhancements that will position the SoT framework to become the generally accepted framework for supply chain security, similar to the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) used in all U.S. businesses, or the globally equivalent International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

There are a number of actions that agencies, the Federal Acquisition Security Council (FASC), Congress, and industry can take now:

• Agencies should explore the application of the SoT framework to their supply chain risks. This participation would also enhance the framework. In addition, data sharing of the results of these assessments between federal agencies should be explored to strengthen the management of government-wide risks to our nation’s supply chain.


• The FASC, working under the direction of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), should actively examine the use of a comprehensive framework like the Supply Chain Security SoT Framework to improve agencies’ supply chain risk management, and move towards adopting a consistent, repeatable, data-driven analytical approach for addressing supply chain concerns.


• Congress, both in its oversight role and in the context of future legislation associated with execution of the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act of 2018, should consider the potential benefits of having the FASC utilize a comprehensive approach like the Supply Chain Security SoT Framework.


• Industry should support and contribute to the continued legislative and executive branch efforts to better understand and secure our nation’s supply chains. Such actions will encourage companies to be conscious of their trust rating if they want to do business with the federal government and to take steps to ensure they are securing their supply chain systems.

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