HARDRADA Verified

HARDRADA Verified is HARDRADA's own check of a supplier in Europe's defence supply chain. An auditor checks the company against published criteria in five areas: quality management, defence quality requirements, information security, export control, and the business itself.

Verified lasts twelve months. Between audits HARDRADA keeps watch for changes, such as a certificate that expires or a rule that changes, and a supplier that no longer meets the criteria loses the status until it does again.

Verified is not a government security clearance, an accreditation or a certification. Security approval in the Netherlands stays with the Nationaal Bureau Industrieveiligheid.

Verified is not open yet. Companies can join a waiting list. The list is private: nobody outside HARDRADA sees who is on it, and a place on it is not Verified.