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The manufacturing and production industry must address physical, human, and cyber threats in order to secure their supply chains. Physical threats include climate change/natural disasters that may reduce the supply of raw materials and disrupt production of final products. Facility flaws – “guards and gates” – also present a physical threat that may allow penetration points at manufacturing sites. Malicious human actions (e.g., crime, sabotage, and terrorism) and non-malicious human actions (e.g., accidents and negligence) also threaten “just in time” manufacturing schedules. Finally, cyber threats including ransomware attacks, software supply chain exploits a means by which threat actors may compromise industrial control systems as well as corporate networks and information systems bringing production to a standstill.

The United States needs resilient, diverse, and secure supply chains to ensure our economic prosperity and national security. Pandemics and other biological threats, cyber-attacks, climate shocks and extreme weather events, terrorist attacks, geopolitical and economic competition, and other conditions can reduce critical manufacturing capacity and the availability and integrity of critical goods, products, and services.