Electronics components cannot be viewed as just another business enterprise that struggles with knockoffs similar to products such as clothing or currency or jewelry. Rather, counterfeiting electronics components creates a dire public and military safety hazard. Counterfeits entering the supply chain are a real-time problem that beckons urgent and immediate reaction to the market status. To make a difference, the electronics community must move in concert, something that would only occur under direction of the US government. Product category assignments, directives in handling test house selections, subsidies to offset costs and news and public release alerts are all necessary actions that must be undertaken by the government. With a suitable counterfeit mitigation program taking root at the EMS-OEM level, the result will yield a more candid and righteous counterfeit mitigation selection process to better defend against counterfeits entering the supply chain.
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