Early Warning Signals: The Strategic Value of Open-Source Risk Intelligence

In today's volatile geopolitical landscape, the U.S. defense sector relies on thousands of Tier 2 and Tier 3 subcontractors for everything from missile systems to advanced AI chips. Yet, most traditional procurement and threat-monitoring tools fail to detect early signals of instability in these vendors, especially when the signals originate from foreign media, regulatory notices, or obscure disruptions buried in unstructured content.

This webinar explored how Semantic Visions' AI-powered OSINT platform enables U.S. defense, intelligence and public sector stakeholders to identify operational threats in advance. We demonstrated how to monitor entities like Nvidia's global supply chain (TSMC, SK Hynix, ASML), rare earth chokepoints (China, Congo, Chile) and vendors supporting mission-critical systems like the F-35, HIMARS and PAC-3.

During this webinar, attendees:

• Learn how to operationalize entity tagging across five key dimensions: vendors, events, geopolitics, compliance keywords and procurement programs
• Understand how to surface mission-interruptive signals before delays, sanctions, or reputational fallout occur
• Explore real-world examples such as factory fires, Chinese export bans and illegal labor protests
• Discover how early signals can be captured, structured and flagged as compliance-threat, contract-risk and readiness gap triggers