Trusted and Assured Microelectronics

Abstract

Funding for the Microelectronic Innovation for National Security and Economic Competitiveness (MINSEC) activities were re-aligned from Project Number 809 to Project Number 822. 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; (3) develop and demonstrate alternative approaches to the DoD Trusted Foundry program to assure the microelectronics supply chain; and (4) provide access to advanced microelectronics that are vital to the national security and economic competitiveness for the U.S. government (USG) in order to enable DoD and broader USG access to commercial state-of-the-art (SOTA) microelectronics technology. This PE supports the 2018 National Defense Strategy’s (NDS) line of effort to build a more lethal force through modernization of key capabilities and the NDS defense objective of establishing an unmatched twenty-first century National Security Innovation Base that effectively supports Department operations and sustains security and solvency. 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 science and technology (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 ensured access to a trusted and assured supply of microelectronics is a 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.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2020
• Source ID: 0605294D8Z_5_0400_PB_2020
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2019 funding in the amount of $40 million was added to support acceleration efforts for MINSEC activities. FY 2020 funding in the amount of $118 million was added to support a high-mix, low-volume enhanced microelectronics manufacturing domestic capability and a proactive awareness and security effort to identify and mitigate critical microelectronics supply chain threats.
• 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
• Artificial Intelligence
• Best Practices
• Electronics
• Fabrication
• Field Programmable Gate Arrays
• Hardware Assurance
• Integrated Circuits
• Intellectual Property
• Manufacturing
• National Security
• Product Development
• Radiation Hardening
• Semiconductors
• Supply Chain
• Supply Chain Integrity

Readers

• Cybersecurity.
• Defense Technology Research and Development.

Technology Areas

• Microelectronics