theTRUMPET.com has just published today a small article on the current US military and counterfeit components issue. This news piece is one of many on the same topic at the moment. This news stems back to last year when the U.S. military bought 59,000 counterfeit microchips from China for use aboard American warships, fighter planes, missiles and anti-missile systems. Fortunately, these counterfeit components were caught early so they never were built into the equipment.
However, how many components which are counterfeit have escaped detection and are actually in military equipment? How could this happen? You would have thought that the military would have had stringent purchasing procedures? theTRUMPET.com article goes on to blame the US government trying to save money. Apparently, since the 90’s rather than using only custom, government-made products at enormous cost, federal agencies are allowed to purchase commercial, off-the-shelf hardware in some cases. See the full article here.
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