Political Quotes

“I would like to acknowledge that Division A of H.R. 1158, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020's Joint Explanatory Statement to Division A, provided an increase to the Trusted and Assured Microelectronics program within the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide account. These funds will allow the Department of Defense to leverage existing public-private-partnerships to enable a U.S. based manufacturing development platform for advanced microelectronic system integration, including anti-tamper heterogeneous integration and foundational copper-based silicon interposer technology. I want to express my gratitude to Chairwoman Lowey, Chairman Visclosky, and the full Committee for the inclusion of this funding increase and for recognizing the urgent need to invest in trusted foundries, advanced microelectronics cybersecurity, and manufacturing capabilities that will translate our domestic research into fielded capabilities for the warfighter. Ensuring quick, reliable, and secure access to leading-edge microelectronics is often a challenge. The changing global semiconductor industry and the increasing sophistication of U.S. adversaries require us to update our domestic microelectronics security framework. Continued U.S. global leadership in microelectronics depends on U.S. owned firms operating at the leading edge of advanced logic technologies and digital memories.…”