DOD to Source ‘Strategic Supply’ of Chips From GlobalFoundries

GlobalFoundries signed a $117 million deal to provide DOD with a “strategic supply” of U.S.-made semiconductors “critical to national security systems,” said the chipmaker Monday. The chips will be produced “securely” at GF’s Fab 8 in Malta, New York, its “most advanced semiconductor manufacturing facility,” it said. The agreement "will strengthen the domestic microelectronics industrial base, as part of the nation's effort to sustain its semiconductor manufacturing capability necessary for national and economic security,” said DOD.