Manifest, the leader in software supply chain cybersecurity and software bills of materials (SBOM) management, has been awarded a contract with the United States Department of Defence Chief Information Officer (DOD CIO) to execute on four pilots throughout DOD.
The pilots will bring Manifest’s industry-leading SBOM management solution to four different DOD components across three branches of the military, building off of Manifest’s recent USD 1.8 Million contract with the Air Force.
According to Marc Frankel, CEO of Manifest, “software runs the military.” We have the most valuable supply chain here, thus it’s critical that we understand the source of the software. With the help of this award, DOD components will be able to operationalize and use the SBOMs that they have been working so hard to develop for their own applications and acquire from suppliers.”
The pilots will make sure that security and supply chain risk management teams throughout the Department can quickly identify and address supply chain vulnerabilities like Log4Shell, assess vendor products for security software development, keep track of open source software inventories, and continuously watch for newly discovered vulnerabilities and supply chain attacks. These pilots build on the SBOM mandates set forth in Executive Order 14028.
