WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM
(NYSE: IBM) today announced a Phase 1 Other Transactions
Agreement under the Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes
(RAMP) Advanced Commercial Capabilities Project through the
Strategic and Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems
(S²MARTS) Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) to support advancing
U.S. microelectronics technology. The project is administered by
the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane Division within the
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and is funded by the Office of
Secretary of Defense (OSD) via the Trusted & Assured
Microelectronics Program.
Microelectronics, also referred to as semiconductors, underpin
U.S. defense and national security capabilities. The objective of
RAMP is to leverage commercial industry's expertise and demonstrate
measurably secure physical design of State-of-the Art (SOTA)
microelectronics technologies, Application Specific Integrated
Circuits (ASICs), and Systems on a Chip (SoC).
For the next several months, IBM's deeply experienced,
multifaceted Research and Services teams, and its partners will
support the integration and development of these capabilities with
an integrated approach to help identify and mitigate threats. These
combinations are intended to enable measurably secure
microelectronics with lower power consumption, improved
performance, reduced physical size, and enhanced
reliability.
"The semiconductor industry is critical for our nation's
security, technology leadership and economic growth," said
Jay Bellissimo, IBM's General
Manager, U.S. Public and Federal Market. "IBM is proud to be
one of DoD's suppliers in this critically important mission and put
our cutting-edge technologies and expertise in service of the
defense community."
More specifically, IBM and its partners will deliver a solution
that involves:
- A verifiable end-to end quantifiable assurance approach, for
implementing a microelectronics supply chain and operational
security standards based on commercial best practices and
tools;
- A multi-foundry SOTA product pipeline, to provide the DoD with
quantifiably secured access to multiple SOTA fabrication on-shore
foundries; and
- A self-sustainable, commercially operated set of capabilities
that support DoD Program of record microchip demand, built upon
commercial best practices.
About IBM
For more information about IBM, visit www.ibm.com
Contact:
Francisco Pelayo
(786) 537-2345
fran.pelayo@ibm.com
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