LONDON — June 11, 2025 – Altana is pleased to announce that, following a competitive tender, the UK government’s Department for Business & Trade (DBT) has chosen to continue working with Altana on its Global Supply Chain Intelligence Programme (GSCIP), giving the UK Government the unparalleled capability to generate policy-informing insights and operational programmes to support national interests from a supply chain common operating picture.
During the £8m, three-year engagement, Altana will provide the UK government with the platform capability to fuse its data holdings to the Altana Product Network, creating an integrated view of UK trade and critical industries with the global supply chain. DBT, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHS Supply Chain (NHSSC), Home Office (HO) and other UK government organisations use tools, workflows, AI, and insights from GSCIP to develop public policies informed by changes to the supply chain and get ahead of potential threats to UK national interests.
This programme of record contract extends an innovation pilot which was launched in 2021 and sponsored by the UK Treasury, as well as the National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF). The Altana platform enables GSCIP participants to gather rapid insights that are verifiable, citable, and sourced from a repository for informing public policy. The consortium of UK Government organisations use Altana’s platform, AI, and visualisation tools to investigate companies, products, trade lanes, and acute risks permeating the global supply chain.
Led by DBT, GSCIP improves visibility of the UK’s supply chains, boosting potential growth opportunities through the use of AI, and improves awareness of security and resilience risks, enabling collaboration on a shared source of truth across HMG. In a recent report on industrial strategy, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change recognised GSCIP’s world-leading capability and recommended further investment in this area, and called for GSCIP to be designated as Critical National Infrastructure (CNI). The programme takes an innovative approach by linking commercial and Government datasets to radically expand visibility of UK supply chains, providing a wide range of applicability and uses across public services.
GSCIP is powered by Altana’s unique platform, providing for the cleaning, fusion, and permissioning of UK government data assets in an isolated, secure UK government cloud environment. Altana fuses and enriches this data with its continuously evolving global supply chain knowledge graph and AI models, all fed by a global network of enterprise, logistics, and financial services organisations connected to Altana.
Evan Smith, CEO and Co-Founder of Altana, said, “The UK GSCIP is a visionary initiative to build supply chain resilience through a common operating picture among UK government agencies and with critical industries in the private sector. It is also a groundbreaking use of Altana’s core supply chain data and AI platform capabilities, with both technical and non-technical users across the government working from and building on our Product Network. We’re proud to provide the foundation of GSCIP, unlocking economic security, procurement efficiencies, and business resilience for critical industries across the UK.”
By connecting GSCIP to the Altana Product Network, the UK gains access to a shared supply chain network view with allied governments. The Altana Product Network powers supply chain visibility, security, enforcement, and policy making programs across the NATO Supply and Procurement Agency, the Australia Office of Supply Chain Resilience, the US Customs and Border Protection Agency, and the US Department of Commerce, among others. About Altana
Altana is the only Product Network connecting buyers, suppliers, logistics providers, and government agencies to drive resilience, compliance, and efficiency across the global supply chain. Customers like Boston Scientific, General Atomics, Maersk, US Space Force, US Customs and Border Protection, and the UK Department of Business and Trade use Altana to design optimal product lines, protect national security, and promote economic growth through collaboration. To learn more, visit altana.ai. 
