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FAR Changes Proposed to Standardize Important Cybersecurity Requirements and to Impose New Cyber Threat, Incident Reporting and Information Sharing Rules

By Marcia Madsen, Stephen Lilley, Adam Hickey & Luke Levasseur on October 10, 2023

Posted in National Security, Regulation, United States

Last week, the government announced two sets of proposed revisions to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to improve the cybersecurity of the government’s information systems. Both sets of revisions relate to President Biden’s May 2021 Executive Order 14028 on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity.

First, the Department of Defense (DoD), the General Services Administration…