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Pentagon warned over U.S. loss of electronics, says report

By Peter Clarke
Semiconductor Business News
(05/19/03 10:55 a.m. EST)

ANNANDALE, Va. — A U.S. Defense Department technology advisory group has warned that U.S. military capability is being put in doubt by loss of the U.S. electronics industry, particularly the loss of semiconductor manufacturing to southeast Asia, according to a report in Manufacturing & Technology News.

The subscription-only newsletter claims to have obtained an unpublished briefing document from the Department of Defense Advisory Group on Electron Devices (AGED).

AGED says the DoD is now in the position of having to get the most advance technologies from outside the U.S. and that the situation 밶ssigns those nations with political and military leverage over the U.S.,?the newsletter quoted AGED as saying.

The AGED briefing calls for 밹orrective actions?but its conclusions are not endorsed by the Directors of Defense Research Engineering (DDRE), a committee it is intended to advise, according to the report.

AGED consultants include: Tom Hartwick, former chief scientist at TRW Inc. as chair; Jack Kilby, the Nobel Prize- winning inventor of the IC, as chair emeritus; Bill Howard, former director of R&D at Motorola; and George Heilmeier, former president and chief executive officer of Bellcore, the newsletter stated.