Member Spotlight: Altana

March 20, 2026

Altana connects government and industry on a shared network to enable multi-tier traceability, verification, and collaboration across the full defense value chain. Its platform enables organizations to map, verify, and continuously monitor complex product value chains, helping manufacturers and acquisition authorities verify supply chain integrity, strengthen compliance, and accelerate trusted procurement across defense and critical technology ecosystems.

Recent Developments

Altana recently announced several milestones that demonstrate the growing role of its Product Passport framework in strengthening supply chain transparency and collaboration between government and industry.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection selected Altana to modernize customs operations through Product Passports, enabling structured collaboration with industry to strengthen enforcement while accelerating lawful trade. Through this approach, manufacturers and their suppliers map and verify multi-tier product value chains together on a shared network, after which AI screens those verified value chains for risk. The same continuous compliance model is now being applied to programs such as Blue UAS certification, allowing manufacturers to collaborate directly with government partners around a shared, continuously updated compliance record.

The company also achieved FedRAMP High authorization for its AI-powered product network on AWS GovCloud. This authorization enables federal agencies to deploy Altana’s platform for some of the government’s most sensitive unclassified missions, including defense acquisition and sustainment.

In addition, Altana recently worked with AUVSI and the Defense Contract Management Agency to conduct the first operational deployment of the Product Passport framework during Drone Dominance Gauntlet I, demonstrating how the model can support real-world certification and compliance processes for the unmanned systems industry.

Value of Altana’s AUVSI Membership

Emily Cook of Altana says the company values AUVSI membership because it provides direct engagement with the organizations and manufacturers shaping trusted drone supply chains.

Through collaboration with AUVSI and partners across the certification ecosystem, Altana works to modernize how compliance is demonstrated and maintained. The company supports a shift from traditional point-in-time certification toward a continuous compliance model built on a shared network where manufacturers, suppliers, and acquisition authorities collaborate around a live compliance record.

This approach is enabled through Altana’s Product Passport framework. Rather than a one-directional submission, Product Passports function as a shared, continuously updated workspace where manufacturers, suppliers, and government partners work together to verify product value chains and maintain compliance over time. Returning manufacturers can reference existing component records to streamline recertification, while AI continuously monitors verified value chains for emerging risks between certification cycles.

According to Cook, this shared infrastructure helps both manufacturers and government partners ensure that defense systems remain secure, compliant, and mission-ready while reducing administrative friction and accelerating procurement.

Exciting Industry Developments

Cook believes the unmanned systems sector is entering a period of rapid expansion as autonomous technologies move from niche deployments toward industrial-scale production.

“The most exciting development is also the most consequential: unmanned systems are scaling from niche programs to industrial-scale production, and the supply chain infrastructure has to scale with them,” Cook says.

As international drone programs grow and autonomous systems become increasingly central to modern defense strategy, the number and complexity of critical components involved in each platform will increase dramatically. Each of those components carries its own multi-tier supply chain that needs to be collaboratively mapped and verified for compliance, ownership risk, and potential adversary exposure.

Cook notes that the infrastructure required to make this work is already emerging through shared compliance frameworks. Persistent component identifiers and continuously monitored value chains allow manufacturers, regulators, and acquisition authorities to maintain visibility between certification cycles while supporting faster approvals for trusted systems at the speed the mission demands.

Industry Challenges

Despite rapid innovation in autonomous systems, Altana sees the need for a shared, collaborative approach to supply chain assurance as one of the most pressing challenges facing the industry.

Cook explains that defense value chains today are vast, globally distributed, and often fragmented across programs, agencies, and suppliers. While many organizations rely on static reports or publicly available data to assess risk, these tools often fail to connect stakeholders or enable coordinated action.

Altana’s approach focuses on connecting suppliers across tiers to collaboratively build and verify trusted value chains, rather than simply providing visibility into them from the outside.

For unmanned systems, this challenge is particularly acute. Platforms seeking Blue UAS or Green UAS eligibility rely on complex global supply chains for components such as flight controllers, camera modules, and data links. Changes within a supplier’s ownership, location, or manufacturing practices can introduce compliance risks between certification cycles.

“The top challenge is closing that gap: building a shared, trusted network that connects manufacturers, program administrators, and acquisition authorities around a common, continuously updated compliance record,” Cook says.

Altana’s Role in the Industry’s Future

Altana is helping address these challenges by connecting government and industry through an AI-powered network built on one of the world’s largest bodies of global supply chain data.

Using this network, defense companies can map and verify multi-tier value chains down to the component level, working collaboratively with suppliers to establish trusted product records. AI then screens those verified value chains to identify potential compliance risks, including adversary exposure, and supports coordinated mitigation across the supply base. Through Product Passports, this verified data is shared within a common workspace where manufacturers, suppliers, and acquisition authorities collaborate to demonstrate and maintain compliance.

Once validated, Altana’s AI continuously monitors value chains for changes. Products that remain unchanged maintain their eligibility status, enabling faster future procurement decisions. When changes occur, Product Passports are automatically flagged for review, ensuring risks are identified early.

By providing this shared operating picture, Altana helps bridge the information gap between government and industry. The result is a more collaborative and transparent compliance framework that supports faster validation, reduced procurement friction, and stronger supply chain security across the unmanned systems ecosystem. For AUVSI members, this approach creates a more efficient compliance experience—allowing manufacturers to submit supply chain data once, maintain continuous compliance through monitoring, and spend less time on administrative processes.

For more information, visit https://altana.ai.