DOD planning new instruction on reporting suspect counterfeit parts

By Jordana Mishory / February 18, 2016 at 8:30 AM
The Pentagon is planning to release a new instruction laying out details for how acquisition officials should report suspect counterfeit parts into a government and industry database. In a Feb. 2 response to a draft GAO report, David Berteau, the assistant secretary of defense for logistics and materiel readiness, said the Defense Department intends to put together a new DOD instruction covering the use of the Government-Industry Data Exchange Program, with the aim to develop, coordinate and issue it by...

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