Trusted and Assured Microelectronics

Abstract

Baseline efforts for this Program Element (PE) were previously funded in PE 0605140D8Z BA 5 and have been transferred to this BA 5 PE to: (1) change the title from "Trusted Foundry" to "Trusted and Assured Microelectronics"; and (2) correctly align funding in support of the mission. Additional funds were added in FY 2018 to enable secure design environments with intellectual property (IP) for access to advanced node processes and field programmable gate array (FPGA) Assurance engagement and co-development with commercial vendors. This 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 microelectronics supply needs; (2) improve capability to evaluate and validate trust of microelectronic parts and advance standards to incentivize 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 state-of-the-art (SOTA) microelectronics technology. This activity will be coordinated by the Office of the Assistant 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, 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. Recognizing that 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.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2018
• Source ID: 0605294D8Z_5_0400_PB_2018
• Change Summary Explanation: Beginning in FY 2018, funds transferred from Trusted Foundry BA 5 PE 0605140D8Z to allow more efficient execution of development and prototyping activities. An additional $55.000 million was added to support secure design environments with IP for access to advanced node processes and FPGA Assurance engagement and co-development with commercial vendors.
• 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
• Authentication
• Best Practices
• Circuits
• Defense Industry
• Fabrication
• Field Programmable Gate Arrays
• Governments
• Integrated Circuits
• Intellectual Property
• Manufacturing
• Microelectronics
• Standards
• Supply Chain
• Validation
• Verification

Readers

• Cybersecurity.
• Defense Technology Research and Development.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Microelectronics