House task force pushes Pentagon to wean itself off Chinese sources

https://federalnewsnetwork.com ^ | uly 22, 2021 | Justin Doubleday

[RomanSoldier19]

A House Armed Services Committee task force will release legislative proposals today that would require the Pentagon to treat supply chain security as a “strategic priority” and identify a plan to wean itself off key materials sourced from China, according to a draft of the recommendations obtained by Federal News Network.

The committee’s “Defense Critical Supply Chain Task Force” final report includes six major legislative recommendations for inclusion in the fiscal year 2022 defense policy bill. They include a requirement for the Defense Department to have a “department-wide risk assessment strategy and system for continuous monitoring, assessing, and mitigating risk in the defense supply chain,” according to the draft.

DoD should also be required to “employ commercially available tools to map the defense supply chain within one year of enactment,” according to the report.

[RomanSoldier19]

[packagingguy]

Why would they want to do that if the corporations that are partners of the deep state admire the CCP system? A first in this “reasoning” is Arnold Toynbee. He was an influential historian who lauded the CCP.

[RBW in PA]

They also need to keep their data out of Amazon cloud, Microsoft is no better either. When we fight a war that the corporate masters don’t agree with they will deny access. They have already shown their willingness to do this so why should it be any different for the military?

[hughesm1]

Up until the end of the Cold War that was the policy, any requisition through the DoD system was required to be procured through domestic production. But since the gov’t sold its soul to globalists and the almighty dollar, we’ve been put in the current situation.

[Vaduz]

Obvious does not out weigh money at the Pentagon.

Joey winks