DHS Supply Chain Security Cooperation Act (HR5144, 109th Congress)

Current understanding

HR5144 (109th Congress, 2006) would have directed the Department of Homeland Security to establish a secure electronic data interchange system for voluntary sharing of supply chain risk information between DHS and vetted private sector entities. The bill included protections for voluntarily submitted information and penalties for improper disclosure or misuse. As a 109th Congress proposal, it did not advance to enactment but is an early example of the DHS–private-sector information-sharing model later extended through frameworks like C-TPAT and the ICTS supply chain regime.

Evidence log

• 2006-04-17 — To provide for supply chain security cooperation between Department of Homeland Security and the private sector, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with icts-supply-chain-security-act-2026: Both establish civilian-side (non-DoD) supply chain security regimes: HR5144 (2006) proposed a DHS–private sector information sharing system; the ICTS Supply Chain Security Act of 2026 modernizes the same information-and-communications-technology supply chain oversight mission twenty years later. (novelty: 2)

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