What Happens When the Engineer Who Built Your Component Is the Only Person Who Knows How It Works?
That is not a hypothetical. It is a real situation Karen Salmon, CEO of Force Technologies, has lived through and it illustrates exactly why continuity planning in aerospace and defence cannot be left to chance.
In the latest episode of Force Tech Talk Now, Karen outlines the Five Elements of Continuity Principle: the framework Force Technologies has developed across 40 years of keeping defence and aerospace programmes running long after the original components have gone out of production.
The conversation covers what those five elements are, why most procurement teams only discover gaps in their continuity planning when it is already too late, and what Karen will be presenting at ROM 2026 this month.
If your programme depends on components that will outlive their manufacturers and in defence and aerospace, they all do this episode is worth 12 minutes of your time.
Watch the full episode above.
You can connect with Karen on LinkedIn to find out more about her work.

