The Military Industrial Complex - part 1368

'In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist'.
From : Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html

Is China 'forcing' these companies to take the counterfeit parts?

Or are the companies, as they have in the past, just looking the other way because the bottom line is better?

'China is dumping counterfeit electronic parts into the Pentagon’s supply chain, two senior lawmakers alleged on Monday, putting U.S. troops at risk and undercutting the American economy'.

'Reviewing more than 100,000 pages of Defense Department documents and material from more than 70 companies, the panel’s investigators found about 1,800 cases of suspect counterfeit electronics being sold to the Pentagon. The total number of parts in these cases topped 1 million'.

'The committee hearing will examine three cases in which suspect counterfeit parts from China were installed in military systems made by Raytheon, L-3 Communications and Boeing'.
From : http://www.salon.com/2011/11/07/lawmakers_says_counterfeits_flood_pentagon_supply/singleton/

POGO's Federal Contractor Misconduct Database:
Raytheon Company : http://contractormisconduct.org/index.cfm/1,73,221,html?ContractorID=46&ranking=5

Boeing Company : http://contractormisconduct.org/index.cfm/1,73,221,html?ContractorID=13&ranking=2

L-3 Communications : http://contractormisconduct.org/index.cfm/1,73,221,html?ContractorID=37&ranking=6