Digital Watchdog NDAA/TAA Compliance Statement

Digital Watchdog NDAA/TAA Compliance Statement

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Affected Roles:  Administrator

Last Edit:  February 16, 2021

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National Defense Authorization Act

To address a perceived cybersecurity risk, an interim final rule of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the Fiscal Year of 2020 was made effective on January 1, 2020.

Section 889 contains the prohibition on certain telecommunication and video surveillance services or equipment from specific vendors.  It also contains several provisions that have a major impact on currently existing and future US government-related video surveillance deployments. 

The NDAA ban extends to manufacturers in cases in which the video surveillance cameras or systems from specified vendors are offered under another manufacturer’s brand name typical of OEM, ODM, and JDM relationships.

TAA Compliance

“TAA” refers to the Trade Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. & 2501-2581), which is intended to foster fair and open international trade, by requiring that the U.S. Government may acquire only U.S. – made or designated country end products.

TAA requires that the U.S. Government may acquire only “U.S. – made or designated country end products.  This act requires that contractors must certify that each end product meets the applicable requirements.  End products are ‘those articles, materials and supplies to be acquired for public use’.”  This includes items which have been manufactured or “substantially transformed” in the United States or a TAA “designated country”. 

Designated countries are composed of:

• World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement Countries
• Free Trade Agreement Countries
• Least Developed Countries
• Caribbean Basin Countries

Digital Watchdog’s TAA compliant products are manufactured in South Korea, approved to be acquired by the United States Government for use.  The products listed below are compliant with GSA Schedules and have been deemed TAA compliant as the final products have been manufactured and substantially transformed within the United States and South Korea, both approved signatory countries designated by the TAA.

For more information:  https://www.acquisition.gov/far/52.225-5#i1053648

Digital Watchdog Statement

• Digital Watchdog is committed to providing NDAA Section 889 compliant products and does not have OEM, ODM, and JDM relationships with the named vendors in the NDAA.
• The Digital Watchdog Compliance Product List will be regularly updated on the Digital Watchdog website.
• The following Digital Watchdog cameras, encoders, network video recorders (NVRs) and digital video recorders (DVRs) which do not use or deploy critical components, nor include SoCs produced by NDAA banned component vendors, are compliant with the NDAA.  These products will be included in Digital Watchdog’s GSA contracts and are recommended for US government applications that are subject to the NDAA.

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