House Energy and Commerce weighs AI, quantum supply-chain bills
The practical signal is Commerce becoming Congress’s default referee for technology risk that still lacks an implementation map.
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Inside Cybersecurity reports that House Energy and Commerce’s commerce, manufacturing and trade subcommittee will hold a Tuesday legislative hearing on bills covering automotive cyber risks from foreign adversaries, secure quantum supply chains and open-source AI. Commerce, technology suppliers and vehicle-sector companies are the immediate audience. No agency duty changes this week; Congress is sketching where future supply-chain controls may land. Rep. Nathaniel Moran separately joins Hudson Institute to discuss data-security legislation tied to foreign adversary-controlled technology.
Inside Cybersecurity reports that House Energy and Commerce’s commerce, manufacturing and trade subcommittee will take up a group of technology supply-chain bills Tuesday, with witnesses from the Abundance Institute, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Boston Dynamics and the Federation of American Scientists. The measures point to where congressional cyber policy is moving: vehicle supply chains tied to foreign-adversary risk, quantum supply-chain security and open-source artificial intelligence.
The Automotive National and Economic Security Act would direct the Commerce Department to examine national security risks, including cyber threats, posed by foreign adversaries to the automotive industry. The American Quantum Competitiveness Act would require Commerce to promote secure quantum supply chains. The Open-Source AI Leadership Act would direct Commerce to support development of open-source AI models. Separately, Hudson Institute hosts Rep. Nathaniel Moran for a discussion of the Deterring Adversarial Access to Americans’ Data Act, which would deny certain tax credits to businesses using foreign adversary-controlled technology.
For practitioners, this is a horizon scan. A subcommittee hearing does not change agency obligations this week, but the direction is clear: supply-chain security is being folded into industrial policy, tax policy, AI policy and vehicle security at once. That may be rational. It also means the eventual implementation burden will land across legal, procurement, engineering and government-affairs desks that do not share one control catalog.
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