Regulatory Digital Product Passports as a Catalyst for U. S. Supply Chain Visibility
Digital Thread: Persistent linkage of product information across lifecycle stages using stable identifiers and related records.
Digital Twin: A virtual representation of a physical product, process, or system that can represent past, present, or simulated future states.
Supply Chain Meta-Graph: An aggregated graph connecting suppliers, facilities, products, components, events, claims, and evidence across many product-level sub-graphs.
Verifiable Claim: An assertion linked to structured supporting evidence that can be evaluated by authorized parties.
Greenwashing: An unsupported or misleading environmental or sustainability claim.
Scope 3 Emissions: Indirect upstream and downstream greenhouse-gas emissions across an organization ' s value chain.
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Note: Generative AI tools( LLMs) were used to support preliminary information gathering and synthesis; all substantive analysis, validation, and conclusions were performed by the author( s).
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