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I think the problem is that there are too many suppliers. Everyone wants to be a middle-man. If the government asks for domestic parts from it's big contracto

by toufka 14y ago

I think the problem is that there are too many suppliers. Everyone wants to be a middle-man. If the government asks for domestic parts from it's big contractors, the big ones ask their small ones, and they ask theirs and so on. But at the end of the day someone realizes it's cheaper to outsource it - does so - and forges the documentation. As the part travels all the way back up the chain each one says it's domestic. The chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

wolf550e 14y ago
They need custody chain management. I assumed they had one. And everyone who signed for it has securety clearance meaning they signed a paper that basically says "I understand that I'll go to jail for twenty years if I'm caught lying about anything".
- Create 14y ago
  ...now you tell me. Political candidates should be required to sign the same stuff. And managers. And physicists. And PR stuntmen.
  - simonbrown 14y ago
    Why physicists?
    - ArtB 14y ago
      I think that was meant as a reference either climate change scientists to cold fusion.
      - ktizo 14y ago
        I suspect it was just plain old fashioned sarcasm. Not that I'm in favour of sarcasm, ever. Honestly.
  - wolf550e 14y ago
    There is a problem of enforcing any kind of law or promises on the people at the top: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRUxmoq1weY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRUxmoq1weY http://www.jeffreywigand.com/7ceos.php http://www.jeffreywigand.com/7ceos.php Outing Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA agent, a 100% treason charge
DanBC 14y ago
The chain is audited regularly. A manufacturer outsourcing stuff has a hell of a lot of documentation to forge. Each screw, each washer, each resistor, has a batch number that it can be traced to.
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