WASHINGTON – A top executive of TechAmerica lauded a US House committee for amending a bill that puts the onus for maintaining a counterfeit-free supply chain on the suppliers.

Senior vice president for National Security and Procurement Policy Trey Hodgkins thanked the Armed Services Committee for adopting an amendment to the fiscal year 2013 National Defense Authorization bill that will aid in the adoption of criteria now under development designed to detect and avoid counterfeit parts in the Department of Defense supply chain.

The amendment shares the risks of remediating counterfeit parts under strict circumstances where the vendor has adopted requirements established by the DoD, acquired the parts from a DoD-approved authorized or trusted supplier, and complied with all specified reporting requirements.

The amendment was adopted by the committee on voice vote.

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