Microelectronics (ME) support all industry sectors: information technology, telecommunications, critical infrastructure, utility management, national defense, and more. The ME supply chain is inherently global and the U.S. is very reliant on overseas suppliers. The ME lifecycle, including phases such as design, fabrication, packaging and testing, is decentralized, resulting in challenges to accessing trusted and assured ME. These challenges increase with the procurement of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products. Against this backdrop, Section 224 of the Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20) National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) directed the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to establish trusted supply chain and operational security standards for the purchase of ME products and services.
This initiative is an example of a standards acceleration SD-PPP model (the link to the standards acceleration page). You can learn more about SD-PPPs, the five models and related use cases here (the link to the SPP models page)
On behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), ANSI held workshops in July and October 2022 to assess standardization activities that will help DoD fulfill its mandate under Section 224 of the FY20 National Defense Authorization Act to establish standards for supply chain security for microelectronics products and services procured by DoD.
The results of these workshops were not made publicly available.
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