Committee on Armed Services U.S. Senate on Electronic Parts

Also released on May 21st, 2012 the Committee of Armed Services United States Senate released their Inquiry Into Counterfeit Electronic Parts in the Department of Defense Supply Chain.

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Senate Armed Services Committee Releases Report on Counterfeit Electronic Parts

On May 21st, 2012 the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee released a report on counterfeit electronic parts. According to this release, the SASC discovered counterfeit electronic parts from China in a U.S. Air Force cargo plane in also in a U.S. Navy surveillance plane among 1,800 cases of bogus parts.

The SASC shows how extremely vulnerable the defense supply chain is by allowing countrefeit electronic parts to "infiltrate critical U.S. military systems, risking our security and lives of the men and women who protect it".

For the complete Senate Armed Services Committee Report, please click here.

Panasonic Factory Suffers Storm Damage

According to Evertiq.com, on April 29th, 2012, a Panasonic Electronic Components factory in Jiangmen,China has suffered major storm damage causing production to come to a halt. A tornado tore a large piece of roofing off the the factory building, causing the factory to flood up to 5-10cm.

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MVP Micro and VisionTech Suspensions by the US Navy

As previously reported on our blog Oxygen Electronics performed a complete review of purchases from MVP Micro and related companies on March 3, 2010 (Previous Posting).   Oxygen Electronics has learned that MVP Micro has subsequently been disbarred from selling goods to the DOD by the U.S. Navy on Feb 24, 2012.

Additionally, VisionTech has been officially restricted from selling goods to the DOD by the US Navy on April 13, 2012.   You can read the post from September 16, 2010 on our blog at this link:  Previous Posting.

More information can be found at https://www.epls.gov/epls/dearch.do   

MIL-STD-883E

We reference this document so often that we thought we should make it easily available on our blog.

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