U.S. Government and Defense agencies increasingly recognize they have minimal insight into the data that allows them to identify and assess the risks to their supply chains. After several recent reports of known and suspected compromise, causing concern at DOD and other government agencies that adversaries could be spying on the U.S. through embedded software and hardware, the time has now come to address this critical issue and mitigate the loss and exploitation of U.S. technology to hostile entities. Additionally, natural disasters can also increase risk to supply chains–especially when single sources of supply exist for special purpose, complex components. While a comprehensive supply chain risk strategy is under development, executives must ensure technology capabilities available now are integrated into future activities. Core to this strategy is advanced enterprise data management.
