Event Presenter: James G. Kushmerick

Director of the Physical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Congress is poised to support microelectronics manufacturing at an unprecedent level through funding of the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Act. This informational briefing will be on the goals and objectives of this initiative along with specific thrusts for industry incentives, semiconductor technology and workforce development. Additionally, the Department of Commerce has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to collect stakeholder input on how the semiconductor initiative should be implemented. The information session will include RFI goals and how to provide input.

Background:

The current proposal in Congress would provide Commerce over $50 billion for programs to strengthen the domestic semiconductor industry by: incentivizing investment in semiconductor manufacturing facilities and associated ecosystems; providing shared infrastructure to accelerate semiconductor R&D and prototyping; supporting research related to advanced packaging; and supporting advanced metrology research.

The information session will provide an executive level overview of the envisioned program.

For more information about the RFI, please see:

Announcement:
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USNIST/bulletins/308cd25
Press release:
https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2022/01/commerce-department-requests-information-supporting-strong-us
Request for information (RFI):
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/01/24/2022-01305/incentives-infrastructure-and-research-and-development-needs-to-support-a-strong-domestic

James G. Kushmerick is Director of the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) where he is responsible for the maintenance, development, and dissemination of the U.S. national measurement standards. He also manages the full suite of NIST calibration services in dimensional, electromagnetic, ionizing radiation, mechanical, optical, thermodynamic, and time and frequency metrology. NIST PML has more than 600 employees and 700 guest researchers at its Gaithersburg, MD and Boulder, CO. campuses, focused on determining definitive methods for nearly every kind of measurement employed in commerce and research, providing NIST-traceable calibrations and dissemination of standards and best practices throughout the nation, and exploring the outermost frontiers of metrology.