Agencies lost their right to ask for an exception 28 days before the order went public

Tech Times reports this is the first civilian-wide government order invoking a supply-chain security statute against an AI company. The 60-day exception window for agencies that needed relief from the mandate closed 28 days before anyone outside the government knew the order existed.

Agencies must now audit their suppliers not just for who made a product, but for what AI technology it was developed with — a compliance problem nobody has tooling for.