Most of us don’t think about semiconductors that often, but they play a major role in our lives. Semiconductors allow us to use our electronic devices, after all — there would no televisions, computers or smartphones without them.
But semiconductors are also vital to our national security, as they power many of the high-tech tools used by the U.S. military to keep us safe.
The military needs access to leading-edge semiconductors that our adversaries lack. Yet in an increasingly globalized semiconductor supply chain, the cybersecurity of the U.S. semiconductors industry is increasingly vulnerable to disruption from malware and other production defects.
