Organizations, entities, or tools employed for the research and development, design, manufacturing, acquisition, delivery, integration, operations and maintenance, and disposal of systems and system components.
Source(s):
NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5
An information technology product or product component that contains programmable logic and that is critically important to the functioning of an information system.
Source(s):
NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4
[Superseded]
under Supply Chain Element