US Legislators Weaving Cybersecurity, National Stockpile Care Into Pandemics Bill

House Energy and Commerce Committee members crafting a pandemic-planning reauthorization bill are adding device cybersecurity details to the language to help maintain the nation’s stockpile of countermeasures to infectious disease outbreaks and chemical, nuclear and biological attacks.

US lawmakers working to reauthorize a pandemic preparedness bill known as “PAHPA” plan to add provisions on maintaining cybersecurity in medical devices purchased for the national stockpile of emergency countermeasures. But recent changes in FDA authority over software products raise some questions with the issue.

Devices, personal protective equipment, pharmaceuticals and vaccines are part of the stockpile maintained by federal agencies in the case of chemical,

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