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The Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) space vehicles directorate is seeking innovative industry solutions to bolster domestic capacity to build

The fiscal year 2022 defense appropriations law provided $550 million for the Space Development Agency (SDA) to accelerate development of the Tracking

All major U.S. defense systems and platforms rely on semiconductors for their performance. Consequently, the erosion of U.S. capabilities in microelectronics is a direct threat to the United States’ ability to defend itself and its allies. Moreover, the U.S. civilian economy is deeply dependent on semiconductor-based platforms for its daily operations. Ensuring U.S.

China could take over Taiwan and thus the majority of the world’s chips, used in aircraft, warships, submarines, cars, iPhones, computers, and more.

"From the DoD's perspective, they're highly dependent on [Asia] for fabrication and packaging [of chips]," Hudson Institute's Bryan Clark tells Breaking Defense. This has led to DoD calls to address a "fragile and threatened" chip supply chain.

Senate Needs To Keep Its Eye on the China Challenge, Not Political Spending Priorities Walter Lohman is director of the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation. It has been a few months in coming, but the U.S. Senate is about to debate comprehensive legislation on how to respond to China. It’s a welcome development – as long as it’s really about strategic competition, and not a package of mostly unrelated government giveaways. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) offered no assura...

Resonant Extends Licensing Agreement With Tier-1 Chinese Foundry Partner Prepaid Royalty Deal Refines Partnership with Existing Tier-1 Foundry Demonstrating Mutual Commitment to Servicing Rapidly Growing Mobile Handset Market Austin, TX (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Resonant Inc. (NASDAQ: RESN), a provider of radio frequency (RF) filter solutions developed on a robust intellectual property platform, designed to connect People and Things, has signed an extension to its licensing agreement with an existing ...

Some Strategic, Defence And Data Security Reasons For #FabInIndia And Possible Options Before GoI Post EoI Deadline by Arun Mampazhy - Jan 17, 2021 09:50 AM A chipset. Snapshot To give some context to the "strategic" importance of semiconductor fabs, some information from a private-public model adopted for decades in the US and some recent US-based studies are being presented below. While the US continues to aggressively push for "on-shoring" more and more of the semiconductor chip manufacturi...