Counterfeit Kudos

During a speech this morning, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) had some nice things to say about the Missile Defense Agency's efforts to fight counterfeit parts in its supply chain:

Last year, our Armed Services Committee investigated counterfeit electronics parts in Defense Department weapon systems.  We found 1,800 cases in the supply chain involving more than 1 million counterfeit parts -- overwhelmingly from China.  The Missile Defense Agency was not immune to the problem.  But under [agency Director] General [Patrick] O'Reilly's leadership, MDA has tackled the issue head-on.  General O'Reilly created some of the strongest protections in the Department of Defense to protect our weapons from counterfeit electronic parts.  Our contractors cooperated with our investigation. They have much at stake in protecting the systems on which our security depends from this flood of counterfeit parts.