" are increasing their sales to federal agencies. Their presence in government's supply chain soared 63% over the past decade, according to a new study released by IHS, a supply chain..., formerly the head of Raytheon's (RTN, Fortune 500) supply chain operations. "It's literally on almost a daily basis they change. The sophistication of the counterfeiting... are already rules and systems in place to protect the government's supply chain. The U.S. General Services Administration, for instance, has a database of about 90,000 risky suppliers...

at Defense Logistics Acquisition Directive (DLAD) 52.211-9074, Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Marking Federal Supply Class (FSC) 5962, to incorporate terms and conditions that must..., Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Marking Federal Supply Class (FSC) 5962, and 52.209-9028, Qualified Suppliers List of Distributors (QSLD) Federal Supply Classes (FSC) 5961 and 5962. The provision...

(deoxyribonucleic acid) taggant. The taggant was developed by and is supplied by Applied DNA Sciences (APDN) of Stony Brook, NY. The purpose of the marking program is to give... manufacturer, its authorized distributors or authorized after-market distributors, must come from those secure supply chains whenever possible, Sharpe points out. It is only after... permitted the easy penetration of supply networks by counterfeit electronic components. It has also led to discoveries of counterfeit components installed in numerous sensitive...

the seriousness of the problem and the need to hold contractors responsible for the bogus parts supplied to build their products. Military leaders and leading defense contractors... suppliers. The government is taking a firm stance on counterfeit parts found in the supply chain, Sharpe says. They re making sure defense contractors know that the responsibility... found about 1,800 cases of suspected counterfeit electronic parts, totaling about a million individual components. After tracing the supply chain, they found that 70...

into Counterfeit Electronic Parts in DoD Supply Chains SMT's Vice President, Tom Sharpe, was called upon by the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) to provide subject-matter... Supply Chains: SMT's industry-leading component authentication lab was chosen by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to provide all testing services for their counterfeit... part availability study on behalf of the SASC investigation into counterfeit parts within DoD supply chains. DNA Marking August 2012 Defense Logistics Agency Mandates DNA-Marking...