High Performance Microchip Supply - Under Secretary of Defense ...

RECOMMENDATIONS ____________________________________________________________
Understand and vigorously communicate the
consequences of failure to act to retain U.S. trusted
and assured microelectronics supply and design.
Advocate that Congress and the administration
embrace economic incentives and steps to attract
those with the best technical skills to the field and
the United States. These measures are required to
make the United States an attractive place to
manufacture semiconductors, related manufacturing
equipment and materials.
Involve:
− The White House, including appropriate councils
and offices
− Commerce and Labor Departments, also the
USTR
− Key congressional committees (both chair and
minority leader)
− Industry
RECOMMENDATION 2 – LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD
As a first step the task force recommends that the secretary of
defense, the USD(ATL) and the secretary of homeland security
prepare a special briefing for the national security advisor and
encourage him or her to take a key role in implementing the
measures detailed in this recommendation to slow the migration of
the microelectronics industry and enable it to strengthen its future in
the United States.
To assure the ability of the DOD to access leading-edge trusted
manufacturing facilities, the United States needs a broad national
effort to offset foreign polices designed to encourage movement of
leading edge semiconductor manufacturing facilities to offshore
locations. In an ideal world, locational investment decisions would
be based on commercial and economic factors, not government
incentives, but we do not operate in an ideal world. A coherent U.S.
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