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June 18, 2013 By AMK

DoD proposes anti-counterfeit IT measures

The Defense Department has proposed updating its acquisition regulations to  require major contractors subject to cost accounting standards – and their large  subcontractors – to have anti-counterfeit avoidance and detection systems in  place for electronic parts.

The long-awaited proposal, issued mid-May,  would implement requirements from the fiscals 2012 and 2013 national defense  authorization acts, passed amid concern  that counterfeit milspec electronic parts have made their way into weapons  systems, potentially undermining their reliability or making them open to a  remote cyber attack – although cybersecurity experts have said  the risk presented by the latter possibility is relatively low.

The proposal would require companies with cost-reimbursement contracts  subject to cost-accounting standards (a requirement that can’t be valid for  contracts worth less than $700,000) to mount an acceptable anti-counterfeiting  effort that would include training, inspection, parts traceability, use of  “trusted suppliers” and a methodology to rapidly determine whether a suspect  part is, in fact, counterfeit. The proposed rule doesn’t define what a trusted  supplier would be.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/dod-proposes-anti-counterfeit-it-measures/2013-06-04

 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: cost accounting, cost reimbursement, counterfeit parts, federal regulations, IT, small business, subcontracting

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