An omniscient portrait of the more than 200,000 DoD suppliers to spot suspicious foreign companies is not on the books, as lower tier suppliers remain hidden--a cloaking helped by the lack of a requirement. "DoD has not contractually obligated prime contractors to provide country-of-origin data that would help it obtain greater visibility into suppliers at the lower tiers of the supply chain," according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, Defense Industrial Base: Actions Needed to Address Risks Posed…
