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Saturday, June 02, 2012

U.S. Companies -- Not China -- Pose The Real Counterfeit Parts Problem

The Senate Armed Services Committee turned its spotlight last November on the problem of sup-par and counterfeit Chinese-made parts used in U.S. weapons programs, including Boeing's new P-8A aircraft, the Marine Corps' V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, and the Navy's Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine.

Sens. Carl Levin and John McCain hammered away at China's involvement and the fact the PRC government does nothing to stop it.

But the following analysis, by experts at the University of Maryland's Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE), concludes that American businesses are the problem – not China.

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