What Will it Take to Implement Software Bills of Materials?

A full year and a half after President Biden called for federal agencies to require software bills of materials for the systems they buy, lobbyists for the tech industry asked OMB to hold off on this “until there is a greater understanding of how they ought to be provided and until agencies are ready to consume the artifacts that they request.” Noting this lack of concrete progress, Kevin Townsend of Security Week asks what needs to be done to fulfill that executive order.