US Defense Adopts ‘Zero Trust’ Approach to Buying Microelectronics
by US Department of Defense
May 20, 2020
Microelectronics are in nearly everything, including the complex weapons systems the Defense Department buys, such as the F-35 joint strike fighter, the Pentagon’s director of defense research and engineering for modernization said.
“It is so ubiquitous and because it is … so fundamental to everything we do,†Mark J. Lewis said via video conference today as part of a forum sponsored by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association.
Because of the importance of microelectronics, he said, the department is shifting the way it goes about buying microelectronics and ensuring they are secure to use.
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