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Supply chain risk assessment for federal equipment determinations
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The Challenge

Supply chain risk needs more than a list

Federal equipment determinations do not stop with the names that appear on a covered list. Analysts have to understand subsidiaries, affiliates, ownership changes, production origin, component sourcing, and relationships that move across jurisdictions and change over time.

That work is hard to sustain through manual searches, spreadsheets, analyst notebooks, and ad-hoc web research. When a new directive or product category emerges, teams often have to start from scratch – identifying affected products, mapping corporate networks, tracing supply chains, and documenting the evidence behind each finding.

The Solution
Ariadne gives analysts a standing workbench for equipment risk analysis. The platform maps corporate relationships and product supply chains, assigns evidence-backed confidence tiers to each claim, and helps analysts trace connections between applicants, manufacturers, products, affiliates, suppliers, and covered entities.
Platform Capabilities

How Ariadne Works

Ariadne combines corporate relationship mapping, product-origin tracing, risk scoring, evidence provenance, and analyst investigation tools in one supply chain risk assessment platform.

Continuous Source Ingestion

Ingests and normalizes data from 10+ public and commercially available sources, including equipment authorizations, corporate registries, sanctions databases, import records, patent filings, product teardowns, government lists, and open-source intelligence. Through secure Olympus-based integration patterns, Ariadne can also incorporate authorized non-public agency data without changing the core platform.

Corporate Affiliate Mapping

Builds and maintains a knowledge graph of subsidiaries, affiliates, joint ventures, shared officers, shared addresses, licensing relationships, and other corporate connections. Analysts can move beyond the named entity to see how risk may extend through related organizations.

Product Origin & Supply Chain Tracing

Maps where products are manufactured, assembled, designed, and developed, along with component suppliers and supply chain entities. Each stage is tracked independently so analysts can see whether risk comes from the manufacturer, assembly location, design origin, or component chain.

Evidence Provenance & Confidence Tiers

Links every relationship, risk factor, and product assessment back to supporting evidence. Ariadne captures the source document, retrieval date, extraction method, and supporting text, then assigns confidence tiers so analysts know what is authoritative, what is corroborated, and what needs review.

Regulatory-Frame-Aware Risk Scoring

Assesses products across the regulatory frame that applies, including Covered List status, National Security Determinations, Conditional Approvals, NDAA restrictions, concern-country production, and approved procurement lists. Risk scores do not replace the determination; they show the supply chain exposure behind it.

Graph Explorer & Analyst Workspace

Gives analysts an interactive graph view, comparison tools, exportable reports, and a conversational assistant for asking questions across the data. Analysts can compare products, identify shared supply chain dependencies, launch focused investigations, and preserve findings for determination packages or procurement advisories.
Trace subsidiaries, affiliates, former business units, shared officers, ownership links, and related entities connected to named covered companies.
Mission Fit

Built for Equipment Risk and National Security Determinations

Ariadne is built for the analytical work behind federal equipment risk determinations where a product may be affected by the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act, Covered List designations, National Security Determinations, Conditional Approvals, NDAA restrictions, or approved procurement lists.

Ariadne helps analysts answer the core questions: Is this applicant connected to a covered entity? Where was this product produced? Which suppliers or affiliates matter? What evidence supports the finding? What changed since the last review?

Covered List Affiliate Discovery
Trace subsidiaries, affiliates, former business units, shared officers, ownership links, and related entities connected to named covered companies.
Product Production-Origin Review
Assess where equipment is manufactured, assembled, designed, or developed, and identify whether any stage of production falls within a relevant national security determination.
Gray-Zone Procurement Risk
Flag products that may not appear on an explicit banned or covered list but still warrant scrutiny because of manufacturer domicile, production geography, or supply chain composition.
Cross-Category Risk Analysis
Apply one evidence-backed methodology across equipment categories, including routers, drones, transmitters, payloads, and adjacent connected products.
Mission Fit

Operational Intelligence for Analysts

Ariadne surfaces data, maps relationships, and provides evidentiary context to support human decision-making. It does not automate decisions or replace analyst judgment.

Ariadne has been demonstrated across router and UAS workflows using one knowledge graph, one evidence pipeline, and one risk model. The same workbench supports NSD routers, NDAA drones, Blue UAS review, concern-country analysis, and future equipment categories.

Built on cloud-native infrastructure with Kubernetes, Kafka-based event processing, autoscaling investigation workers, graph storage, and a provenance store, Ariadne is designed to move from demonstration to operational use.

The platform is source-agnostic and directive-agnostic.
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Schedule a demo with CATHEXIS to explore how Ariadne can support affiliate discovery, supply chain tracing, equipment risk assessment, source integration, and determination workflows.

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