LONDON — March 4, 2025 - Altana, the world’s first Value Chain Management System, has been appointed to support the U.K. Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) supply chain management, development and resilience activities.
Altana is one of six suppliers chosen as part of the Data Framework (DF186) programme. Altana will enable the MOD to understand companies' legal status, ownership connections, sanctions information, supply chain behaviours and relationships, overall health, and other insights driven from Altana’s network.
The framework is intended to enhance the MOD’s ability to monitor and assess the resilience of its extensive supply chain, which comprises approximately 9,600 suppliers. The MOD seeks to proactively mitigate risks and ensure the robustness of its supply chain operations.
“The global supply chain is a principal theatre in this new great power competition. The ability to protect, monitor, and to surge production in trusted defence value chains will be the key to winning the 21st Century,” said Altana CEO, Evan Smith. “Altana is honoured to support this vital mission for the MOD by enabling a common operating picture between industry and government. While outsourcing created opaque and interdependent defence value chains, Altana is making it possible to know and manage these global networks, and for the MOD to achieve supply chain command.”
Victoria Cope, Commercial Director of Defence Digital at the U.K. Ministry of Defense, said, “We are delighted to have established the data framework, which supercharges a key component of Defence’s supply chain capability programme.”
About Altana
Altana, based in New York, is the world’s first Value Chain Management System, a collaborative, public-private network that enables customers to take command of their extended supplier and distribution networks – from raw material origins to the sale of finished products. By applying artificial intelligence to the world’s largest body of supply chain data, Altana reveals these previously opaque global networks and powers workflows across them. Customers like Boston Scientific, General Atomics, L.L.Bean, Maersk, US Customs and Border Protection, and the U.K. Department of Business and Trade use Altana to build secure, resilient, efficient, and
sustainable global value chains.
