Figure 1. Cyber-informed framework for resilient, trusted supply chain decisions.
Director Randolph Hall presented CREATE’s design for integrated, resilient, and trusted supply chains to the Department of Homeland Security’s Supply Chain Community of Interest on June 11. His presentation emphasized the impact of linking the flow of information with the flow of goods, along with linking computational tools with policies that promote trust, reliability, and efficiency, as shown above.
“The Center for Resilient, Integrated and Trusted Supply Chains (CIRT- SC) is our vision for making supply chains more reliable,” explained Hall. “Through research and development, we can overcome the pitfalls that made our supply chains vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic, and improve the American economy.” Ultimately, CIRT-SC could address the key questions for supply chain resilience: domestic capacity, ecological risks, interconnectedness, labor and talent, malicious acts, market concentration, natural disaster, pandemics, transportation disruption, and trust in nations. Doing so entails integration of proprietary decisions from companies with public decisions governing supply chains, preparing for the shocks that threaten supply chain reliability.
Figure 2. System layers enabling resilient supply chain integration.
Figure 2. System layers enabling resilient supply chain integration.
Posted June 19, 2025