Modern slavery is not just unethical. It introduces several dangerous risks to the U.S. government’s supply chains, including non-compliance with recently launched U.S. sanctions, elevated risk of product compromise, and last but not least, national security risk.

This is an important topic that anyone involved federal procurement, compliance, and security processes needs to be aware of and actively mitigating, including professionals in:

• Federal acquisitions
• Operations
• Post-acquisitions compliance and vendor vetting
• Counterintelligence and national security

Topics Discussed

• Requirements of the new Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act and why its reach is so broad
• How to implement effective supply chain risk management measures
• Why you need to re-vet and continually assess your vendor network
• Options to remove risky vendors from your ecosystem, even on existing contracts
• Where supply chain risk management technology can be used by agencies to identify risk and leverage open-source intelligence, even in other languages