DHS Supply Chain Security Data Interchange (HR5144)
Current understanding
HR5144 (109th Congress, 2006) would direct the Department of Homeland Security to establish a secure electronic data interchange system for sharing supply chain risk information with vetted private sector entities. The bill contemplates protections for voluntary industry submissions (e.g., confidentiality safeguards, limits on secondary use) and penalties for unauthorized disclosure, building incrementally on existing frameworks such as C-TPAT. Status: introduced; no enacted changes to individual or corporate data rights yet.
Evidence log
- 2026-04-28 — To expand the sharing of information with respect to suspected violations of intellectual property rights in trade.: cross-connection with cbp-nonpublic-import-data-sharing: Both involve DHS-component sharing of nonpublic supply-chain/logistics data with outside parties, raising parallel questions about scope limits and recipient safeguards. (novelty: 3)
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Contributing findings
To provide for supply chain security cooperation between Department of Homeland Security and the private sector, and for other purposes.
17-apr-2006
novelty 2
per-area 2
introduces