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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/
That top graph is strange. They couldn't have ordered the number of Chinese suppliers in any sensible way? And only 5 of those categories of suppliers have more than 1 corresponding component category?
I agree the chart is kinda shitty... I mean that's just what you get tho when you're the Pentagon paying some contractors $400 million. American excellence