"These findings should outrage every American," said Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who heads the Senate Armed Services Committee, calling the new report "deeply troubling."
"The Chinese government's refusal to shut down counterfeiting that occurs openly in their country puts our national security and the safety of our military men and women at risk. It also costs thousands of American jobs."
Levin and the top Republican on the committee, Senator John McCain, blasted China last year for failing to control a flood of counterfeit parts installed on U.S. weapons systems.
At the time, they said committee investigators had identified about 1,800 cases involving one million counterfeit parts since 2009.
They asked the GAO to carry out the fictitious shopping trip as part of the committee's broader investigation, which is nearing completion. The GAO specifically requested parts that were new in original packaging, not refurbished.
McCain said the GAO report made clear how easily Chinese counterfeiters were able to access the U.S. market.
Given the lack of any crackdown by China, Levin said it was critical that the U.S. Treasury and Department of Homeland Security stop counterfeit products from entering the country, using authorities added to last year's defense authorization bill.
"There is too much at stake for us to delay," Levin said.
The GAO cautioned that the results of the latest report were based on a small sample and could not be used to make inferences about the extent to which parts were being counterfeited.
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