The United States must transform the defense supply chain into “weapon itself,” warns the expert
After the recent conflict between Israel and Iran, the CEO to demand, Brandon Daniels, examines the vulnerabilities of the supply chain and what must be done to make them safer.
Historical strikes on Iran have revealed more than American power on the world scene – they also exposed the potential weaknesses of the defense industry in its supply chain.
The CEO to demand, Brandon Daniels, believes that if America can rethink the way it addresses its defense supply chain, it could transform a major vulnerability in the largest asset of the United States.
“There are a few critical things that we have seen appearing in our data and starting to appear while our AI examined the potential impacts. The first is that there is an omnipresent impact in terms of Israeli technological dependencies,” Daniels told Fox Business.
A stealthy spirit B-2 US force B-2 bombardier is flanked by four fighter planes Raptor F-22 during an overview of military aircraft on the Hudson river and the New York port after New York and New Jersey on July 4, 2020. (Reuters / Mike Fresh / Reuters)
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Requiring found that more than 28,000 American companies depended on the technology that is manufactured, updated or maintained in Israel. While the Israelis began to lock themselves during the conflict with Iran, this ended the operations of these companies in danger. Daniels stressed that when you look at companies that are still removed from the conflict, the number of companies affected reaches approximately 13.7 million.
Daniels told Fox Business that Enigue had found an “explosion” of dependencies with regard to technology from the Middle East, especially with regard to cybersecurity. He noted that Israel is one of the largest security software manufacturers in the world, which means that American companies are more vulnerable when Israel is in the period of war or conflict.
If the conflict with Iran has transformed into a “complete kinetic expansion”, “she” would have forced to crawl and modify our supply chains considerably to support systems like the B-2, which have several requirements in terms of minerals and critical magnets, “said Daniels.
A map of the United States strikes Iran on June 21, 2025. (Fox News / Fox News)
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“We really have to go faster to transform our supply chain into a weapon itself. Because being able to act quickly and getting quickly being a differentiating as regards the capacity of combat in wartime,” Daniels at Fox Business told.
While these vulnerabilities became obvious during the War of Israel with Hamas, which began in October 2023 and is still in progress, Daniels explained that they were more pronounced during the conflict with Iran.
“When you have two big nations like Israel and Iran who are at a large -scale kinetic war, you will have potential stops more exacerbated and more pronounced … It is much more pronounced now than Hamas was much more pronounced when you have a nation that has such a significant nation with another country.
Daniels warns that it is time to stop thinking about the six -day supply chains and starting to think about six months of six years in order to have maximum protection. Although he thinks that the congress will probably focus more on the visibility of the supply chain in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the 201026 financial year.
“I suppose – and from what I see, from what has been published or the conversations that I have – the NDAA of this year will take this question of visibility of the supply chain very seriously for the department and for entrepreneurs who support the department,” Daniels told Fox Business.
Several spirits B-2 land for the recovery of planes while the storm clouds meet on August 24, 2016 at Andersen Air Force, Guam. (Hmm Images / Universal Images Group via Getty Images / Getty Images)
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When asked what it would take to build a resilient defense supply chain in 2025, Daniels stressed the need to map and report on the chain. This would mean having a complete understanding of the place where the parts are made, which produce them and what is happening to do them.
In addition, suppliers must be integrated “into a engagement platform” which would allow more open communication and strategies. He also added that rationalization or elimination of unnecessary regulatory standards would allow the United States and its allies to use more manufacturing processes.
