Ideas and Insights

With the advent of the increased employment of COTS parts in weapon systems, counterfeit commercial parts infiltrating its supply chain has become a concern for the US military community of Defense contractors, LCMCs, DLA and others. OEMs have historically struggled with the counterfeit issue due to IP concerns and its impact upon losing market share to the suppliers of counterfeit parts. For the military, the primary concern is its impact upon warfighter safety during a mission due to quality issues of the counterfeit part, as well as reliability issues resulting in decreased system availability due to higher failure rates of the counterfeit part. 

DoD is attempting to address the above issues through its Industrial Base Office. Thoughts?

http://www.bis.doc.gov/defenseindustrialbaseprograms/osies/defmarketresearchrpts/final_counterfeit_electronics_report.pdf