After objections from the Pentagon, lawmakers have dropped a proposal that would have required the defense secretary to appoint a senior official as the executive agent for preventing counterfeit microelectronics from entering the defense supply chain. Earlier this year, the House passed a version of the fiscal year 2011 defense authorization bill that called for the executive agent. But Senate authorizers included no such proposal in their version. Following objections from the Defense Department, lawmakers omitted the provision from the...
