This document provides data-driven recommendations for establishing a program to protect the defense industrial base and safeguard DoD’s access and sustainment of critical systems.
Motivating a Supply Chain Enterprise Approach to Protect the Defense Industrial Base
What’s the issue? A comprehensive and cost-efficient solution to identify and mitigate foreign ownership, control, and influence risks in DoD supply chains is needed to safeguard DoD's access and sustainment of critical systems and technologies. To be successful, a program focused on protecting the defense industrial base would need to navigate complex authorities, policy, and data requirements from DoD stakeholders to mitigate risks from foreign ownership, control, and influence.
What did we do? MITRE’s Non-Traditional Data Employment for Competition Cross-Cutting Priority develops capabilities to identify links between U.S., adversary, and allied countries using publicly and commercially available data to enable whole-of-nation courses of action.
What did we find? A diverse set of regularly updated data, scalable automation solutions, and centralized DoD authorities are required to establish a future program. For the greatest impact, a future program should consider opportunities for centralized resourcing, streamlined sharing mechanisms with government and industry, and updates to acquisition policy.
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