Accrete, the cognitive infrastructure company building Knowledge Engines for autonomous work, announced that it has signed an agreement with TenderAlpha, a global provider of government contracting and supply chain data. The agreement brings TenderAlpha data into Accrete’s Argus for Supply Chain Influence, giving defense and civilian agency customers greater visibility into the companies, suppliers and component parts behind the products and systems they rely on.
Across the government, supply chain visibility has become a priority. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) requires closer scrutiny of defense suppliers, and civilian agencies face growing pressure to understand risk in critical food, agricultural and medical product supply chains. Agencies need a clearer view of the sub-tier relationships and sources where risk often goes unseen.
“Supply chain risk isn’t a data aggregation problem. It’s a judgment and tacit knowledge problem,” said Prashant Bhuyan, Founder and CEO of Accrete. “Human expertise doesn’t scale fast enough to get ahead of foreign influence threats, and burying analysts under mountains of disconnected data only makes it worse. Accrete’s Knowledge Engine captures and scales the tacit knowledge of individual analysts and the organization itself. It grounds reasoning models in that judgment so they become trusted agents. With TenderAlpha’s data in Argus, those agents can do in minutes what would ordinarily take teams of exceptional analysts months or years.”
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“Our customers need to understand supply chain risk faster and at a deeper level than ever before,” said Bill Wall, CEO of Accrete AI Government. “Adding TenderAlpha data gives us greater insight into the obscured vulnerabilities and threats inherent in complex global supply chains. It gives defense and civilian agency teams a robust picture of who is really behind the products and components they depend on, so they can act before a vulnerability becomes a problem.”
By combining TenderAlpha data with Argus for Supply Chain Influence, powered by the Accrete Knowledge Engine and its supply chain expert agent, Accrete customers will be able to:
- See deeper into the supply chain, with expanded insight into sub-tier suppliers and component-part sources.
- Identify risks earlier, including foreign ownership, influence and concentration concerns, before they disrupt operations or missions.
- Support compliance efforts tied to federal sourcing and supply chain requirements, including the NDAA.
- Make faster, better-informed decisions on sourcing, vendor vetting and mitigation.
“Exposing complex supply chain risk requires connecting the dots across disparate layers that are very rarely combined,” said Martin Tsanov, CEO and co-founder of TenderAlpha. “The fusion of TenderAlpha’s global B2B relationship and trade data with government contracting and subcontracting data within Argus’ cutting-edge multi-tier graph architecture equips national security agencies with the comprehensiveness and visibility needed to proactively identify hidden dependencies and secure critical supply chains.”
The TenderAlpha agreement is part of Accrete‘s ongoing investment in the data and analytics that federal customers need to protect the Defense Industrial Base and the critical supply chains Americans depend on. Customers using Argus for Supply Chain Influence will gain access to these expanded insights in early 2027.
Source: PRNewswire
