WASHINGTON — With 2026 just around the corner, a senior Pentagon official is warning companies in the defense industrial base to start now to get their ducks in a row ahead of a 2027 mandate that their products be free of parts from certain Chinese companies.
“Either knowingly or unknowingly, the firms that are connected to [banned Chinese parts under Section] 1268, we need to illuminate those challenges, those connections. We need to connect with the programs and the firms … to go ahead and remove them,” Michael Cadenazzi, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy, told an audience at the Atlantic Council today.
In the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act [PDF], lawmakers included the Section 805 provision essentially blocking the…
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