OMB Approves FAR CUI NPRM

Yesterday, the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that it had approved a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) on “FAR Case 2017-016, Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)”. This NPRM was sent to OMB on May 21^st, 2024. This rulemaking has been under consideration since 2017

According to the Spring 2024 Unified Agenda entry for this rulemaking:

“This rule will apply the controlled unclassified information (CUI) program requirements in Federal contracts in a uniform manner to protect CUI. This rule is one element of a larger strategy to improve the Government’s efforts to identify, deter, protect against, detect, and respond to increasing sophisticated threat actions targeting Federal contractors. This rule is being issued in accordance with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) regulations implementing the CUI program per Executive Order 13556 [link added] issued November 4, 2010, as implemented in NARA’s implementing regulations [link added].”

I will probably not be covering this regulation in any depth, but I will at least mention the publication of the NPRM in the appropriate ‘Short Takes’ post.