Body of Knowledge · Technology & ownership · D9
Supply chain
Where do chips and hardware come from?
42 out of 100 · Dependent
Average of 109 scored findings; 302 findings carry no evidence on this dimension and are not counted.
1. By sector
- Central Government 50
- Local Government 50
- BBC 46
- Devolved Governments 46
- Policing 45
- Defence 42
- NHS 38
- Schools 29
- Higher Education 21
2. How findings split
- Exposed 24
- Dependent 0
- Partly sovereign 78
- Sovereign 7
How we score it
Each finding is scored 0 (exposed) to 3 (sovereign) from the evidence field below; the page index is the average, scaled to 100.
- supply chain risk
- Low 3
- Medium 1.5
- High 0
3. Most exposed
- OpenAI GPT models (via Microsoft 365 Copilot / Azure OpenAI) 0 NHS · NHS – National · OpenAI; Microsoft (Microsoft, 2026)
- Microsoft 365 Copilot + Copilot Studio national deployment 0 NHS · NHS – National · Microsoft (Ecosystem, 2026)
- NVIDIA GPUs for AI compute (Stargate UK / Nscale-Microsoft UK supercomputer) 0 Central Government · Cross-government · NVIDIA (Computer Weekly, 2025)
- Sovereign UK AI compute (Stargate UK with Nscale/NVIDIA; Nscale-Microsoft supercomputer) 0 Central Government · Cross-government · Nscale; OpenAI; Microsoft (Computer Weekly, 2025; Computing, 2026)
- BBC-trained/fine-tuned LLM (Style Assist; R&D model on BBC archive) 0 BBC · BBC News · BBC R&D on open-weight base model (Newscaststudio, 2025)
4. Most sovereign
- Ark Spring Park data centre, Corsham (consolidated MoD hosting after closure of Bath site) 100 Defence · Defence Digital · Ark Data Centres (DatacenterDynamics, 2014; DatacenterDynamics, 2025)
- TacSys Resource Partner: output-based support to the Land Environment Tactical CIS programme 100 Defence · British Army (TacSys Delivery Team) · QinetiQ; Eviden (Atos); BMT; Roke; Accenture (Find a Tender Service, 2024; Atos, n.d.)
- Next Generation Communication Network (NGCN): fixed-network replacement; transformation partner and Network Systems Integrator selection 100 Defence · Defence Digital · PA Consulting (Contracts Finder, 2025; Consulting, n.d.)
- MSAB XRY mobile forensics (kiosk, XAMN, XEC) 100 Policing · Humberside Police / UK LEA · MSAB (Find a Tender Service, 2026; Investors, n.d.)
- NAS hosting and associated managed PaaS services 100 Policing · Home Office (National ANPR Service) · Redcentric Solutions (Beta, 2023; Channelweb, n.d.)
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