Reimagining Supply Chains for National Resiliency

Supply chains are critical for our well-being. They touch all critical sectors of the economy, including aerospace, agriculture, defense, energy, health care, microelectronics and semiconductors, transportation and logistics, critical materials, and many more. When supply chains fail, we suffer, as we learned during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also learned that the challenges we faced then can be overcome if we reimagine supply chains with the goal of ensuring our national resiliency.

The 2024 National Academy of Engineering annual meeting on "Reimagining Supply Chains for National Resiliency" represented a call to action for the nation's top engineers in business, government, and academia to come together and reimagine next-generation supply chains. The forum of the 2024 annual meeting brought together four experts on supply chain issues to share their experiences, perspectives, and predictions. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussion of the forum.