The Government Office for Science has published a new Foresight report on supply chain risk and resilience that carries direct relevance for the defence sector, as the industry navigates an increasingly contested global environment and a government push to build sovereign industrial capacity. “Global Supply Chains: A Foresight report on risk and resilience” sets out an evidence-based framework for identifying vulnerabilities, testing assumptions, and stress-testing supply chains against different future scenarios. Its central finding is one the defence supply chain already knows from experience: supply chains are not linear systems but complex networks, where a product may appear secure while…
