General (Retired) Bryan P. Fenton, Former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, Joins the SAGINT® Board of Advisors

As defense primes prepare for new proof of origin rules on January 1, General Fenton will advise SAGINT® on defense industrial base resilience and on building a team equal to the work ahead.

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SAGINT®, a data infrastructure company that provides supply chain verification as a service for industries that cannot afford uncertainty, announced today that General Bryan P. Fenton, U.S. Army (Retired), former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), has joined its Board of Advisors. General Fenton will advise SAGINT® on critical minerals supply chain security and defense industrial base resilience, and on building a team that can adapt as quickly as the market around it.

General Fenton served 38 years in uniform. He commanded all special operations forces in the Pacific, led Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), and served as the Senior Military Assistant to two Secretaries of Defense. He ended his distinguished military career as the 13th Commander of USSOCOM, where he led about 70,000 personnel across every military service. General Fenton spent his career building teams and making hard decisions in chaotic, fast-changing environments, which is the daily reality of a growing company in a consequential industry. SAGINT® is simultaneously adding customers, partners, and markets, and General Fenton's counsel will help the company build a team that meets the challenge head on, adapts when conditions change, and maintains its standards throughout.

The companies that supply the U.S. military face a near-term test. On January 1, 2027, U.S. code and defense acquisition rules expand restrictions on the sourcing of certain magnets and critical minerals. In a matter of weeks, defense contractors must be able to prove that these materials were not mined, refined, separated, melted, or produced in China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea. In addition, Executive Order 14415, signed July 20, 2026, separately calls on defense contractors to provide indentured bills of materials that trace components back to the origin of their raw materials. Defense contractors will need to show origin and custody records that they did not build their supply chains to keep.

SAGINT® builds that record. The company issues one Digital Warehouse Receipt (DWR) per lot, computed from the producer's own process data and verified again at every transfer. Authorized buyers, lenders, insurers and governments each verify the information relevant to them, while proprietary data stays protected. On October 27, SAGINT® announced that ADI Foundation is its exclusive Channel Participant, bringing the DWR to ADI Chain and expanding the SAGINT network to Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. SAGINT® has been in production on real material since January 2026, beginning with ReElement Technologies.

General Fenton joins Maura Burns, former Chief Operating Officer of the Central Intelligence Agency, on the SAGINT® Board of Advisors, and works alongside Ambassador (Ret.) Troy Fitrell, Chief Executive Officer of SAGINT International. Together they bring defense, intelligence, and diplomatic experience to the company.

"Governments and the companies that supply them need proof they can act on," said Jacob Clayton, Chief Executive Officer of SAGINT®. "General Fenton has spent his life at the sharp end of the supply chain and understands the risks when that supply chain is exposed to uncertainty. He also lives by one of the core truths of the special operations community—that humans are more important than hardware. General Fenton will help us build a team based on that ethos."

"It's an honor to join the SAGINT® team," said General Fenton. "I have seen first-hand the importance of providing our warfighters with what they need to fight and win. Everything our forces field depends on material someone can account for, from the mine to the moment it reaches them. Building that kind of trust takes a team that can adapt as fast as the problem changes and still get the details right. I look forward to working alongside this team as it grows."

General Fenton's views are his own and do not represent or imply endorsement by the U.S. Government or any of its departments or agencies.

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