Pentagon eyes microelectronics hubs across US to bolster chip industry – By Courtney Albon (Defense News) / Sept 20, 2023
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Defense Department is establishing eight regional microelectronics hubs in seven states across the country aimed at helping spur manufacturing innovation to bolster the domestic semiconductor-industrial base.
Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks told reporters during a Sept. 20 briefing at the Pentagon that the awards total $238 million. Each innovation hub is receiving between $15 million and $40 million to establish initial operations, she added.
The home bases for the eight hubs are:
- New York, led by the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute.
- Arizona, led by Arizona State University.
- North Carolina, led by North Carolina State University.
- Indiana, led by the Applied Research Institute.
- Ohio, led by the Midwest Microelectronics Consortium.
- Southern California, led by the University of Southern California;
- Northern California, led by Stanford University and the University of California Berkeley.
- Massachusetts, led by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.
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