Contractors are obliged to notify the Pentagon on use in their systems of microelectronic components produced in China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, reports Defense News, referring to the draft law submitted by the Republican Senator from Missouri Joshua Gouley.
The publication notes that a similar solution will favorab the development of the American microelectronic industry. Defense News reminds that in 2000 in the United States there were 1500 printed circuit board companies, but at present their number has decreased to less than 200.
Edition, in particular, writes that in the United States was concerned about the safety of electronic components supplied from China, and the reliability of the corresponding logistics chains. “Chinese printed circuit boards present a serious threat to the integrity of America’s defense systems,” Gouley is sure.
In January 2019, the acting general director of the Rocket and Space Center (RCC) “Progress” Dmitry Baranov said that the Russian satellites of remote sensing of the Earth “Resource-P” No. 2 and No. 3 do not work due to electronics failure. “First, the reason is technical, it is generally established, but to the end legally, these things are not yet decorated, so until it is taken into the media field. Reasons for refusals – they, if we talk, so to speak, in general language, in the email failure Component base, “said the head of the enterprise.