A report for the Pentagon was released by Arlington, Virginia-based Govini, which in 2019 received a five-year, $400 million contract from the Pentagon to provide data, analysis and information on Department of Defense spending, supply chain and acquisitions.

The report also states that dependence on the Chinese supply chain is present on every major weapons platform, including US aircraft carriers.

It is separately noted that the current dependence on China cannot be resolved even in a decade. Because a “supply chain” at this scale is an entire economy, as it is a network of many firms that buy and sell from each other.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2024/01/09/americas-carriers-rely-on-chinese-chips-our-depleted-munitions-too/

  • chungusamonugs [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I hate when know-nothings think that any electronic device with a Chinese made component is a threat. They literally think it’ll started beeping and glowing red then burst in to flames like a damn simpsons sight gag.

    • Palacegalleryratio [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      29·
      2 months ago

      I think in this case it’s less china spying on you through your asic chip, and more a failure of American industry and wartime manufacturing capacity.

      Let’s say we have the great American-Chinese war, it’s not unreasonable to assume the US will lose some material right? Well that’s a big problem when your replacement parts come from your main adversary. Who has, coincidentally, by manufacturing all your peacetime supplies built all the infrastructure and expertise to build their own wartime supplies.