Trusted and Assured Microelectronics
Abstract
This Program Element (PE) is a continuation of effort from the Trusted Foundry PE 0605140D8Z. FY18 funds in the amount of $84.200M are being transferred from PE 0605140D8Z for the Verification and Validation (V&V) Capabilities and Standards for Trust and the New Trust Approach Development activities planned across the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP). This PE implements, maintains and updates the DoD’s long-term microelectronics strategy. Recognizing that a trusted and assured supply of microelectronics is a Government-wide concern, this activity will interface with interagency partners to take into account interagency requirements, opportunities for collaboration, and strategic decisions that can be made to limit the overall cost of these requirements to the government. Its goal is to eliminate the Department of Defense (DoD)’s reliance on sole source foundries for trusted state-of-the-art (SOTA) microelectronics. It supports activities to ensure critical and sensitive integrated circuits are available to meet the DoD’s needs. It refines strategies and management planning activities that will implement three integrated, complementary solutions that (1) provide for Intellectual Property (IP) protection of microelectronics components; (2) improve capability to evaluate and validate trust and assurance of microelectronic parts and advance standards to incentive the commercial marketplace to recognize trust as a competitive design standard; and (3) develop and demonstrate alternative approaches to assuring the trust of the microelectronics supply chain in order to enable broader DoD access to commercial SOTA microelectronics technology. Approximately 30 percent of the DoD’s Major Defense Acquisition Programs rely on the Trusted Foundry, the only Trust-accredited SOTA foundry, to build critical and sensitive integrated circuits for the DoD, Intelligence Community and Defense contractors. This activity is being led by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (ASD(R&E)). Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane is responsible for day-to-day management and execution of the DoD long-term trusted and assured microelectronics strategy. This activity will include performers from the Joint Federated Assurance Center (JFAC) Steering Committee and a new Science and Technology (S&T) Advisory Board, and include performers, such as the JFAC service providers, Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA), the Defense Advanced Research Programs Agency (DARPA), and other DoD and Intelligence Community S&T organizations and laboratories in the area of hardware assurance (HwA) and software assurance (SwA). It will integrate and support the functions of the DoD Trusted Foundry Program, the Trusted Supplier accreditation program, JFAC, and the related HwA and SwA S&T actions. This activity is also expected to maintain and update the DoD long-term microelectronics strategy based on feedback from the execution of this PE and enable and leverage commercial and academic relationships as necessary to fulfill this mission.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- 0604294D8Z_4_0400_PB_2018
- Change Summary Explanation
- FY18 funds in the amount of $84.200M are being transferred from PE 0605140D8Z for the initiation of the Verification and Validation (V&V) Capabilities and Standards for Trust and the New Trust Approach Development activities planned across the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP).
- Service Agency Name
- Office of the Secretary Of Defense
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
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