Supply Chain Illumination Improves Visibility and Reduces Risk
Challenge
The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) requested assistance in understanding their supply chain’s breadth and depth. The JPO understood key suppliers well but had limited visibility into sub-tier suppliers that provide critical components supporting higher assemblies. The Agency also wanted to identify threats to production, sustainment, operations, and threat actors attempting to insert themselves into susceptible US national security supply chains.
Solution
Guidehouse’s Cybersecurity Solutions Team, Open-Source Solutions Group, and our Defense Segment applied a scalable and repeatable approach, using government and commercial best practices to help illuminate and map this client’s supply chains. The team:
Impact
The supply chain illumination improved visibility into the supply chain and identified suppliers that could impact production cost, schedule, and performance. This data can also be used to evaluate data rights assertions and inform multi-year contract strategy.
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Case Study Contributors: Jason Dury, Alex Henry, Jim Harry