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By Bryan Clark and Dan Patt on March 15, 2021 at 8:35 AM A microchip developed jointly by the Air Force Research Laboratory and American Semiconductor. No modern army could last a minute without microelectronics: no radio, no sensor, no targeting system would function without silicon chips. No civilian economy could function either – just look at what you’re reading this article on. Yet the US has never secured its supply line of the essential microelectronic building block, the semiconductor. That has to change. Recent events continue to underscore semiconductors’ central role in U.S. economic and national security. Carmakers are slowing their assembly lines due to a microprocessor shortage. Export controls on U.S.-built chip manufacturing equipment and design tools helped cut Huawei’s 2020 smart phone sales by 40 percent. And the world’s largest semiconductor supplier, U.S.-based Intel, stumbled in its effort to build the next generation of cutting-edge chips, leading its CEO to step down and the company to seek US government help.
By Bill Greenwalt on March 09, 2021 at 8:00 AM If the new DOD task force on China is serious about looking at the state of our technology competition, it needs to understand that the balance of technological power has shifted – and it has primarily been a self-inflicted wound. The best ideas no longer arise in a US defense industry encumbered by 60 years of Stalinist-style central planning and security controls, but from commercial sources that once were primarily in the U.S. and are now globalized. Bill Greenwalt What is most important is that, in these private industries, time-based innovation, experimentation, and operational prototyping are the coin of the realm. For better or worse, the way the U.S. military innovated in the 1950s, before well-intended “reforms” stifled creativity and risk-taking, is now the dominant model for commercial innovators worldwide, including in adversary nations. To make matters worse, the current U.S. defense innovation model’s lack of value and disregard for time now keep some of the best firms and engineers from working on defense solutions.
Pentagon’s dated budget process too slow to beat China, new report says February 25 Military personnel stand in formation next to a portrait of China s President Xi Jinping (back) outside the Forbidden City in Beijing on October 22, 2020, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of Chinas entry into the 1950-53 Korean War. (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP) WASHINGTON ― A new report argues for a sweeping overhaul of the Pentagon’s 60-year-old defense budgeting and appropriations process, so it can match the fast-moving commercial sector and outpace China’s technological development. The paper, set for release Thursday, argues that numerous acquisition policy reforms over the years have failed to get the best results because the Planning, Programming, Budget and Execution, or PPBE, process has eluded change. The authors, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Industrial Policy Bill Greenwalt and the Hudson Institute’s Dan Patt, recommend the U.S. consider more agile defense budgeting.
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