Trusted Foundry

Abstract

This Program Element (PE) 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: (1) provide support to acquisition programs to address trusted and assured microelectronics supply needs; (2) improve capability to evaluate and validate assurance of microelectronic parts and advance standards to incentivize the commercial marketplace to recognize hardware assurance as a competitive design standard; and (3) develop and demonstrate alternative approaches to the DoD Trusted Foundry program to assure the microelectronics supply chain in order to enable broader DoD access to commercial state-of-the-art (SOTA) microelectronics technology. This activity will be coordinated by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, and will include performers from the DoD Components, the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA), the Joint Federated Assurance Center (JFAC), the Defense Advanced Research Programs Agency (DARPA), other DoD and Intelligence Community science and technology (S&T) organizations and laboratories, the defense industry, and the broader commercial industrial base. It will integrate the functions of the DoD Trusted Foundry Program, the Trusted Supplier accreditation program, JFAC, and related S&T activities. This activity implements, maintains, and updates the DoD’s long-term microelectronics strategy. Additionally this activity places emphasis on incentivizing and proving new microelectronics technology solutions. Recognizing that a trusted and assured supply of microelectronics is a U.S. Government (USG)-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 USG.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2019
Source ID
0605140D8Z_5_0400_PB_2019
Change Summary Explanation
FY 2018 funds transferred to PE 0604294D8Z in BA 4 for development and prototyping activities and PE 0605294D8Z in BA 5 for demonstration activities.
Service Agency Name
Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Advanced Manufacturing
  • Application-Specific Integrated Circuits
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Circuit Boards
  • Circuits
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • Hardware Assurance
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Laboratory Equipment
  • Manufacturing
  • National Security
  • Printed Circuits
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Supply Chain

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics

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