Improving Contractor Cybersecurity Act
Official title: To amend title 41, United States Code, to require information technology contractors to maintain a vulnerability disclosure policy and program, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Improving Contractor Cybersecurity Act
This bill prohibits an executive agency from entering into a contract for information technology unless the contractor maintains a vulnerability disclosure policy (VDP) and program.
The contractor must report to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the Department of Homeland Security, within seven days after the VDP is published and on an ongoing basis as vulnerability reports are received, information regarding
- any valid or credible report of a not previously known public vulnerability on a system that uses commercial software or services that affect, or are likely to affect, other parties in government or industry once a patch or viable mitigation is available; and
- any other situation where the contractor determines it would be helpful or necessary to involve CISA.
CISA must submit vulnerabilities to the MITRE Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database and the National Institute of Standards and Technology National Vulnerability Database.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1258: Improving Contractor Cybersecurity Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1258/
"H.R. 1258: Improving Contractor Cybersecurity Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1258/.
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