Counterfeit Parts: DOD Needs to Improve Reporting and Oversight to Reduce Supply Chain Risk

Abstract

The DOD supply chain is vulnerable to the risk of counterfeit parts, which have the potential to delay missions and ultimately endanger service members. To effectively identify and mitigate this risk, DOD began requiring its agencies in 2013 and its contractors in 2014, to report data on suspect counterfeit parts. A Senate report included a provision for GAO to review DODs efforts to secure its supply chain from counterfeit parts. This report examines, among other things, (1) the use of GIDEP to report counterfeits, (2) GIDEPs effectiveness as an early warning system, and (3) DODs assessment of defense contractors systems for detecting and avoiding counterfeits. GAO analyzed data from GIDEP for fiscal years 2011 through 2015; reviewed DOD policies, procedures, and documents; and met with agency officials and seven selected contractors based on dollar value from contracts that included a new counterfeit clause.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1003335

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Counter WMD
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Counterfeit Parts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detection
  • Electronic Components
  • Intellectual Property
  • Law
  • Logistics
  • National Security
  • Social Media
  • Supply Chain
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Warning Systems

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