Automated Supply Chain Risk Intelligence at Scale

A Bloomberg News investigation in September 2023 discovered that a little-known company, AOG Technics Ltd., in England, is the source of a catalog of bogus products, including components like nuts, bolts, and friction dampers, which could find their way into critical military equipment. The use of counterfeit parts, driven by a desire to cut costs or adversaries intentionally creating issues within the supply chain, has the potential to create safety vulnerabilities in military systems, allowing adversaries to exploit these weaknesses. Incidents involving fake parts persist, affecting a wide range of defense equipment, from electronic systems to basic hardware items. For the military, the risk is bigger than monetary loss. “Parts and materials that could present an adversary with a specific strategic advantage are a target to be counterfeit,” reads a US Army pamphlet published in January. “Malicious insertions can result in system data being reported to an adversary, monitoring of a system by an adversary, or enabling an adversary to control the system.” In one case involving more than 400 displays installed in US C-130J and C-27J military aircraft, failure rates escalated to almost a third of all units tested, including one incident while the plane was in use. A similar example occurred with more than 300 semiconductors used in systems to detect icing on aircraft wings purportedly made by San Jose, California-based Xilinx Inc., but which were actually found to be knockoffs, again originating from China. Nefarious or not, a small magnet in the F-35 in Sep ‘22, found to have originated from China, suspended a shipment of $6.5billion-dollar F-35s. Quantifind’s best-in-class, novel and proprietary AI-driven vetting platform, Graphyte, uses a Large Language Model that provides entity resolution, risk modeling, and relationship extraction into highly flexible bulk graph exports with 92% accuracy to draw precise links between known bad actors. Quantifind is an enterprise Artificial Intelligence (AI) company that works with clients such as Wells Fargo and Truist Bank, the FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), and others to address difficult and time-consuming investigative tasks like conducting diligence and vetting vendors or identifying foreign malign influence, evidence of adversarial capital, threat financing or supply chain vulnerabilities. Quantifind raised $120M in capital from venture capital firms, including U.S. Venture Partner and In-Q-Tel (IQT), an American not-for-profit venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia that invests in companies to keep Intelligence Agencies equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability. Quantifind helps identify global threats for decision-makers. Proven outcomes include 75%+ fewer false positives, 50% improved efficiency, and daily stakeholder screening with 92% name resolution accuracy.