You can’t secure a supply chain you can’t see.

In aerospace and defense, your supply chain isn’t a vendor list. It’s a national security surface. Thousands of suppliers across tier 1, tier 2, and tier n — each one a potential path for an export control violation, a counterfeit part, a foreign ownership exposure, or a cyber intrusion into controlled unclassified information.

The consequences don’t look like other industries. An ITAR violation isn’t a fine — it can be a debarment. A counterfeit component isn’t a quality issue — it’s a flight-critical failure. A sanctioned entity three tiers down isn’t a procurement oversight — it’s a headline, an investigation, and a contract you no longer hold.

And yet most A&D programs still can’t answer basic questions about their extended supply base. Who owns that tier-three supplier? Which of our vendors are CMMC compliant? What changed on the sanctions list this morning, and does it touch us? The answers exist — scattered across spreadsheets, buried in contracts, sitting in an inbox nobody has read.

Certa gives A&D organizations visibility across every tier of their supply chain, screening that updates the moment the list does, and documentation that holds up under DCMA, DCAA, and regulatory scrutiny.