Platform to Support Development of Risk Scenarios Posed by COVID-19 and Converging Threats on the U.S. Trade Supply Chain Infrastructure

Issue: Given the complex and disruptive nature of COVID-19 to supply chains and infrastructure systems, this project  will build a risk-guided platform to support development of risk scenarios posed by the pandemic and converging threats on the U.S. trade supply chain infrastructure, with a focus on food and agriculture supply chains.

Objective: This project from the Cross-Border Threat Screening and Supply Chain Defense (CBTS) Center of Excellence in partnership with the Texas A&M University College of Engineering developed a platform that provides access to datasets, predictive models, and experts’ opinions that are useful in generating evidence-based support on the impacts of COVID-19 on U.S. trade supply chains.  Upon completion, the platform allows for identification and characterization of evidence depicting the dynamics of infrastructure interactions of U.S. domestic and international trade supply chains, from procurement, manufacturing, and warehousing, to transportation processes.

Value Proposition: The platform developed in this project supported the analysis of risk mitigating strategies and improved efforts to assess the resiliency and sustainability U.S. supply chains.