Building Resilient Federal Supply Chains: Leveraging AI, Data, and Cross-Agency Collaboration

This IBM Center for The Business of Government roundtable report examines how federal agencies can strengthen supply chain resilience through AI, data, and collaboration. Written for acquisition leaders and government supply chain professionals, it finds that most agencies can see only the first one or two tiers of suppliers.

Readers will learn how to improve supplier visibility, assess data quality before deploying AI, and incorporate supply chain risk into enterprise risk management. The report identifies five near-term AI use cases, including market research and anomaly detection, and recommends six immediate actions and four longer-term steps. As a roundtable participant quoted in the IBM Center report warns, “If you do not know your supply chain, it will never work.” The findings also stress workforce training and interagency data sharing.