Defense Security Service chief: 'We're in a knife fight' to protect contractor supply chains

By Tony Bertuca / October 27, 2016 at 1:43 PM
China, because it is home to 56 percent of the world's microelectronics consumer market, has a relatively easy time these days luring U.S. companies to do business, but Defense Security Service Director Dan Payne says such opportunities have led to supply chain security risks the likes of which the defense industrial base has never known. "We're in a knife fight and most people don't know it," he said Wednesday at a conference hosted by Bloomberg Government in Tysons Corner, VA...

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