Turning R&D into reality to meet the challenges of the modern battlefield
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
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Powering the future: Securing America with domestically made microelectronics
Onshoring and investment in military-specific semiconductors anchor a cornerstone of the defense industrial base.
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Data overload threatens decisionmakers as autonomy expands
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
Northrop Grumman offers made-in-USA microelectronics to partner firms
Northrop’s three government-certified semiconductor factories are now taking orders from other aerospace and defense firms, the company announced.
Pentagon invests another $160 million from CHIPS Act to boost semiconductor manufacturing
Most of the funding, $148 million, will go directly to the eight Microelectronic Common hubs spread across the country.
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A new approach to speed, scale and efficiency for the industrial base
Radars, EW, EO/IR, space imagery, and microelectronics are brought under one roof for a streamlined approach to common people and factories.
DARPA’s OPTIMA program seeks ultra-efficient AI chips
Because it needs much less electricity per computation than current chips, the new hardware could take AI out of big data centers and onto drones, robots, and other small platforms at the “tactical edge.”
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Keeping sensitive information safe in a new AI era
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
CHIPS are down: DoD awards $240M to build 8 tech hubs, official warns shutdown would be ‘crushing’
As the Defense Department hails a key step in strengthening America's microelectronic supply base with eight new hubs, a looming government shutdown casts a long shadow.
For DoD microelectronics, invest more in data-centric approach: report
“To stay ahead of our competitors, the Department of Defense needs access to the commercial supply chain of microelectronics," William LaPlante, USD A&S, said. "It is absolutely essential, but it comes with inherent risks. The independent panel review is helping us better understand the risk-based approach we need to take."
Better, but still ‘whack-a-mole’: IT industry adapts to supply chain problems, for now
While key executives tell Breaking Defense they have adjusted to the new normal, experts worry IT supply chain vulnerabilities could be exploited in the future by adversarial nations.
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How new modular chiplets in advanced semiconductors defend against dynamic threats
Having digital technologies with silicon at their heart is how kinetic platforms like ships, planes, and next-generation ground vehicles become smart.
The state of play in military space
The military space sector is evolving fast. Get the latest from Space Force and industry officials on what’s next for acquisition, policy and training in a new Breaking Defense eBook.
US risks ‘weakness and dependence’ as it falls behind China in tech race: Report
Data analytics firm Govini noted widespread investment in most of 12 top critical national security technologies, but said stats on patents are a troubling indicator of Beijing's tech rise.
BAE transitioning first set of multi-chip prototypes into EW systems under DoD’s SHIP program
With the delivery of the first set of prototypes, “the pendulum is swinging back to onshoring our own domestic capabilities," Heidi Shyu, under secretary of defense for research and engineering, told reporters.
The CHIPS Act has passed. Now comes the hard work.
The CHIPS Act has been hailed by supporters as a game-changing piece of legislation in the microelectronics tug-of-war between the US and China. But is it a revolution, or is it just a starting point? In this new op-ed, Alan Shaffer, Mike Fritz and Bob Hummel of the Potomac Institute lay out how much more […]
More than AI or hypersonics, microelectronics dominate DARPA’s investments
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to spend some $896 million on microelectronics, a total that is more than the combined figures for its second and third big money investment areas, in FY23.