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12:04:56 PM
The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President transmitting a notification of a declaration of a national emergency with respect to the information and communications technology and services supply chain declared in Executive Order 13873 of May 15, 2019 - referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed (H. Doc. 117-6).
12:04:43 PM
The House received a message from the Clerk. Pursuant to the permission granted in Clause 2(h) of Rule II of the Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Clerk notified the House that she had received a sealed envelope from the White House on January 5, 2021 at 5:05 p.m., said to contain a message from the President regarding additional steps addressing the threat posed by applications and other software developed or controlled by Chinese companies.
Executive Order 13873 of May 15, 2019
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/eo-response-methodology-for-assessing-ict_v2_508.pdf
On May 15, 2019, the President signed Executive Order (EO) 13873: Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain. This EO addresses the threat posed by the unrestricted acquisition or use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and services “designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied by persons owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of foreign adversaries,” and declares a national emergency with respect to this threat.
The EO requires the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to produce a written assessment within 80 days and annually thereafter that would “assess and identify entities, hardware, software, and services that present vulnerabilities in the United States and that pose the greatest potential consequences to the national security of the United States.” 1 The assessment “shall include an evaluation of hardware, software, or services relied upon by multiple information and communications technology or service providers, including the communications services relied upon by critical infrastructure entities identified pursuant to Section 9 of Executive Order 13636.”
Within DHS, the responsibility to execute the assessment was assigned to CISA/NRMC on behalf of the Secretary. In its response to this EO, the NRMC coordinated with federal and private partners to assess what ICT hardware, software, and services (referred to individually in this report as elements) present the greatest vulnerabilities in U.S. infrastructure and pose the greatest consequences.