DECEMBER 2025AEROSPACEDEFENSEREVIEW.COM19capability provided DoD the data prior to the company advising that they would be late in delivery which could have an increased risk to not only our servicemen and women but civilians. We were able to address with the vendor and ensure that the nation's need was met. If we did not have commercial risk technology incorporated with the DoD Advana platform with the assistance of artificial intelligence and machine learning, combined with information sharing we never would've found this and lives could have been lost.The DoD Joint Acquisition Task Force (JATF), in partnership with the Air Force Innovation Office (AFWERX) team, used DoD Advana enhanced capability and was able to perform almost fully automated due diligence and validation of PPE proposals within eight hours of proposal submission. During the peak period from late March 2020 to May 2020 AFWERX team with data from the DoD Advana enhanced platform processed over 3,000 proposal submissions. This effort of using data to drive decisions directly affected and illuminated valid sources of PPE within days of implementation. The capability remains in place, illuminating and vetting potential vendor capacity and sources around the world to enable resourcing of material solutions that are critical to the COVID-19 response, including direct support to Operation Warp Speed.This is just a sample of what we need to do as a nation to buy down the risk. We learned a great deal from this crisis, but what I think resonates is that we are all connected to supply chains and that we must work together to ensure we maintain the competitive edge for our national security. DoD has moved forward over the past few years and worked to enforce security that is foundational to our supply chain with several efforts, as we see is, not one effort will be enough. It is the combination of the right tools, standards, information sharing. There are many factors to enable this such as Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification rolling out in real-time for the DIB. The rewrite of the DoDI 5000.02, called The Adaptive Acquisition Framework (AAF) is the DoD's transformational tool that improves the ability to deliver warfighting capability at the speed of relevance. DoD is changing the acquisition culture by simplifying policy, empowering program managers (PMs), tailoring acquisition approaches, conducting data-driven analysis, actively managing risk, and emphasizing sustainment. We can no longer look at any solution as the only solution and we have to remember that security and risk are not one size fits all, to one program or supply chain. Another tool we have to harden our supply chain is the Trusted Capital program. The Trusted Capital program is an investment ecosystem that fosters deal flow in the interest of national security, bringing corporate suppliers offering solutions that are critical to the defense industrial base together with trusted capital providers.The Federal Government has taken action to move forward with SCRM and information sharing with Federal Acquisition Security Council (FASC), to which I am the DoD representative on the FASC council. The FASC is responsible for increasing information sharing within the federal government regarding supply chain risk and creating guidelines and practices for risk management. The FASC distributes the intelligence community's supply change risk management (SCRM) threat analysis to federal civilian agencies making acquisitions decisions.One thing is for certain, we have the incredible SCRT with commercial offers, that when merged with government platforms and information sharing we can get to the "left of CFIUS" and ensure our national security interest and stability of the US economy from adversarial influence...we all must remember ONE TEAM, ONE FIGHT!
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