The State of Supply Chain Defense in 2022 | BlueVoyant
Let's start with what we learned. First, companies are working to discover more about their supply chains. For instance, in 2020 only 14% of all companies surveyed reported having more than 1,000 companies in their supply chains; in 2021 that number more than doubled to 38%, and in 2022 we saw another substantial increase to 50%.
2024 NDAA Maintains Focus on Supply Chain
2/1/2024. By Stephanie Barna, Alex Hastings and Daniel Raddenbach. The fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act includes numerous supply chain and stockpile …
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Defense supply chain mapping and risk management. DOD is increasing supply chain visibility through the creation of a Supply Chain Mapping Tool to analyze supplier data for 110 weapon systems.
Securing Defense-Critical Supply Chains
The Department of Defense released a report on how to secure defense-critical supply chains, as required by Executive Order 14017. The report identifies key challenges, risks, and opportunities for strengthening the industrial base and ensuring national security. The report also provides recommendations and actions to address the …
Supply Chain Management Solutions Defense & Military Supply …
Understanding Supply Chain Management Platforms for Defense. Essentially, there are three approaches and types of platforms to consider: 1. ERP and Derivative Systems. Enterprise Resource Planning systems have been the technology of choice in enterprises and military organizations for decades, and they have delivered …
COVID-19 Response Sparks Efforts to Strengthen Supply Chain
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the fragility of the Defense Department's supply chain. As a result, the department is taking a variety of steps to strengthen that supply chain, the undersecretary ...
The Biden- Harris Plan to Revitalize American Manufacturing …
Institutionalize Supply Chain Resilience Throughout the Federal Government: ... During the pandemic, HHS established a Defense Production Act (DPA) office to ensure supply chain scarcity and ...
Department of Defense Approves $30 Million in Grants Under Defense …
The Department of Defense today announced the Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation award of six (6) grants totaling approximately $30 million under the Defense Manufacturing Community ...
Toward Defense Supply Chain Disruption Management
The authors propose a research agenda with the following five areas to help fill gaps in understanding of how defense supply chains can better resist and recover from disruption: (1) Improve understanding of supply chain disruption, including the composition of defense supply chains and its associated stakeholders and actors.
DLA Expanding DOD Visibility of F-35 Supply Chain
The Defense Logistics Agency is increasing supply chain visibility of the F-35 joint strike fighter while working to boost readiness. "As the main logistics entity for the Department of Defense ...
The State of Supply Chain Defense in 2022
For this 2022 report, we'll focus attention on how organizations are moving past problem identification and on to the challenge of how to mitigate cyber risk within supply chain vendors. With traditional solutions, vulnerability and security issue identification has been the expected outcome — with a significant amount of false positives ...
2024 NDAA Maintains Focus on Supply Chain
2024 NDAA Maintains Focus on Supply Chain. The fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act includes numerous supply chain and stockpile management provisions aimed at reducing vulnerabilities in Defense Department supply chain networks. Of note, this year's NDAA seeks to address China's and Russia's continued dominance in the ...
DOD Awards $14.4 Million to Sustain and Enhance the Space …
The Department of Defense today announced an award of $14.4 million via the Defense Production Act Investment (DPAI) Program to 5N+ Semiconductors (5N Semi) to sustain and expand the capability to ...
Report of the Defense Critical Supply Chain Task Force
Thank you for your support in standing up the Defense Critical Supply Chain Task Force. We are pleased to provide you with the Task Force final report which includes six legislative recommendations we will submit as amendments for the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act full committee mark up.
Increasing resiliency of the defense supply chain requires a …
In its 2022 State of Competition in the Defense Industrial Base report, the Department of Defense (DoD) even identified supply chain resiliency as one of five solutions for increasing competition ...
U.S. defense industry faces surging demand and a supply chain crunch
Trying to solve the defense industry supply chain crunch. The war in Ukraine and rising tensions over Taiwan have caused demand for high-tech, American-made weapons to surge. And with the ongoing ...
'No company is immune': Supply chain woes weigh …
Nov 23, 2021. Lockheed Martin employees work on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter production line in Fort Worth, Texas. Lockheed's acting chief financial officer said larger-than …
How to shift DoD's supply chain mindset from tactical to …
Resilience: While DoD supply chains must remain cost-efficient, they can only succeed with resiliency and by solving for unknowns. This can be accomplished with consolidated service-level ...
The US National Defense Supply Chain Is in Crisis
Supply Chain. Procurement. The US National Defense Supply Chain Is in Crisis. Aug. 3, 2022. The military and its partners have become too dependent on foreign-made parts, materials and minerals. George Whittier. Ben Bordelon. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine are just two recent events that have stressed …
Supply Chain Threats
Supply Chain Risk Management. The mission of NCSC's Supply Chain and Cyber Directorate (SCD) is to enhance the nation's supply chain and cyber security, leveraging multidisciplinary counterintelligence and …
Critical Supply Chain Task Force Releases Recommendations
The Defense Critical Supply Chain Task Force has released its final report with findings and recommendations — such as minimizing U.S. reliance on foreign suppliers — that would prevent future ...
'No company is immune': Supply chain woes weigh on defense …
Nov 23, 2021. Lockheed Martin employees work on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter production line in Fort Worth, Texas. Lockheed's acting chief financial officer said larger-than-expected supply chain ...
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The performance of the DoD supply chain is essential to warfighter readiness. To monitor that ... Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics (ODASD[Logistics]), in coordination with the military departments, the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), Joint Staff …
Congressional Report Could Be Major Step To Strengthen US Defense …
The Defense Critical Supply Chain Task Force report, released July 22, is the result of a bipartisan congressional effort stood up in March and co-chaired by Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., and Rep ...
DOD Looks to Establish 'Mine-to-Magnet' Supply Chain for …
The Defense Department has in recent months advanced its goal of developing domestic supply chains to ensure continued access to the rare earth materials needed to manufacture the permanent ...
Defense Supply Chain Playbook
This Defense Supply Chain Playbook for Manufacturers and Service Providersis one of two deliverables of the project. The other Playbook is intended for EDOs in support of the same objectives that support industry diversification in Wisconsin. The project took place from September 2016 - June 2017 and focused on gathering data and best practice ...
A Brief Guide To Defence Supply Chain Management
These components are the building blocks that make the supply chain function effectively and efficiently. 2. Critical Components Of Defense Supply Chain Management. Various parts of a defense supply chain may need further explanation. In addition, there is a difference between a standard business supply chain and a defense …
Building Supply Chain Resilience
Second, identify potential shocks and evaluate which ones are most likely and most disruptive. Third, create contingency plans and buffers for the most critical, vulnerable portions of the supply chain. Step 1: Improve visibility to minimize surprise. Maximizing visibility into supply chains should always be the goal.
Defence Supply Chain Strategy
The target ambition has been set for functional maturity within the Defence Supply Chain. At current, Defence is a self-assessed rating of in between 1.8-2.4*, characterised by siloed activity and ...
Collaboration and Standardization Are Key to DOD's Battery …
The supply chain report, published by the Defense Department's Office of Industrial Base Policy, was a response to Executive Order 14017, which directed assessment of potential supply chain risks ...
