Hello and welcome to a DTNest weekend edition slash kind of a know a little more.

If you want to reach back to those old episodes, which I intend to get back to making at some point.

We are going to take a look at what is a supply chain risk when it comes to the United

States government.

Of course, you've been following the story on DTNS along with us, where the Department

of Defense and Anthropic have had a dispute over how the department can use Anthropics tools, and they not only said they would cancel the contract, but also said that they would declare Anthropic a supply chain risk.

So today's episode is going to go into what that actually means, what the law says has to be done in order to

declare a supply chain risk, and what has actually been done in relation to anthropic.

Keep in mind, by the time you listen to this episode, all of that part about what has been done

could have changed. They could have done things we didn't know about. Things may have changed on the ground. They may have renegotiated a contract. Who knows.

But as of this recording late on Friday, that is all going to be relevant. And of course, all the stuff

about law is also going to be relevant as well. So let's start with how a supply chain risk is

defined. The term supply chain risk means the risk that an adversary may

sabotage, maliciously introduce unwanted function, or otherwise subvert the design, integrity,

manufacturing, production, distribution, installation,

operation, or maintenance of a covered system.

These are the classified systems that are detailed elsewhere in the law.

So as to, so in other words, the risk that an adversary might do these dastardly things

in order to surveil, deny, disrupt, or otherwise degrade the

function use or operation of such system. Now, to the point of whether Anthropic would even

qualify, some people say the term adversary means they don't. They're a United States company run by United States people.

They are not an adversary.

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