DIA’s CIO highlights the agency’s shift from application-centric to data-centric models and how embedding personnel in industry shops helps build workforce expertise.
Purdue undergraduate engineer Hannah Pike and SCALE Director Peter Bermel perform infrared measurements on
microelectronics to measure their durability. (Photo credit: Charles Jischke/Purdue.)
President Joe Biden speaks to employees at a Lockheed Martin facility which manufactures weapon systems such as Javelin anti-tank missiles, on May 3, 2022 in Troy, Alabama. (Photo by Julie Bennett/Getty Images)
The CHIPS Act is intended to boost domestic production of semiconductors that are critical for U.S. military systems and a wide variety of commercial products.
The DOD wants to create a Microelectronics Commons to kickstart the domestic development of the chips it uses for critical technologies and weapons systems.