Platform Launches to Give DoD Real-Time Picture of Supply Chain

A new platform called SPARC (Surge Production & Readiness Command) has been unveiled to allow the Department of Defense and major manufacturers real-time visibility into U.S. production capacity—helping them reduce single-source risk and deliver systems at relevant scale.

Initially funded by the Defense Logistics Agency, SPARC connects directly to manufacturing machines, manufacturing execution systems, and supplier data feeds to turn live production activity into evidence of readiness. In this way, defense buyers can verify which suppliers have available, qualified capacity, and suppliers can prove they’re contract-ready without paperwork or PowerPoint.

“When a surge hits, forecasts fail and guesswork costs time,” says Callye Keen, CEO of Kform, one of the SPARC development partners. “SPARC shows, in near real time, who can build what—and how fast. We must plan for success and confidently answer the challenge of scaling production.”

Built by a joint team of software and hardware firms, including Authentise, Kform, and OpenWerks, SPARC delivers secure, machine-verified supply chain transparency inside a zero-trust tunnel to Azure GovCloud, with a path to full CMMC and ITAR compliance.

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Its dashboards provide three levels of insight:

• Supply Chain Health: a map of qualified suppliers with filters by process, certification, and utilization.

• Demand Absorption: surge simulations showing delivery wave plans and stress points.

• Supplier Gantt: machine-level proof of throughput, idle time, and readiness to deliver.

Recent pilot cases are built on and tested against DoD demand signals, like the challenge of helping a U.S. drone producer scale from 100 to 10,000 units per month. Next, the team plans to onboard 100+ suppliers, integrate additional MES and sensor data, and expand from capacity visibility to assured delivery.

“SPARC bridges the gap between promise and proof,” Andre Wegner, CEO of Authentise, adds. “For DoD, it’s how we achieve surge resilience without relying on foreign capacity. For suppliers, it’s the new credential: verifiable readiness.”

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.