[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 103 (Wednesday, June 19, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E797]
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  DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND 
               RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2020

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                               speech of

                            HON. DARREN SOTO

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 12, 2019

       The House in Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
     the Union had under consideration the bill (H.R. 2740) making 
     appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
     Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal 
     year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes:

  Mr. SOTO. Mr. Chair, I would like to acknowledge that Division C of 
H.R. 2740, the Defense Appropriations Act for FY 2020's Committee 
Report, H. Rept. 116-84, provided an additional $10 million general 
program increase in funding for the Industrial Base Analysis and 
Sustainment Support Program within the Research, Development, Test and 
Evaluation, Defense-Wide Account. These funds will allow the Department 
of Defense to leverage existing public-private-partnerships to 
establish a U.S. based manufacturing development platform for advanced 
microelectronic system integration, including foundational copper-based 
silicon interposer technology.
  The Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Program is dedicated to 
ensuring that the Department of Defense is positioned to more 
effectively, and efficiently, address industrial base issues, and 
support the National Security Innovation Base. This includes the 
ability to proactively mitigate supply chain vulnerabilities within the 
global defense industrial base, and to cultivate next generation, 
emerging, defense manufacturing and technology sectors.
  Continued U.S. global leadership in microelectronics depends on U.S. 
owned firms operating at the leading edge of advanced logic 
technologies and digital memories. The next generation of electronic 
devices will require significantly greater functional density, in other 
words, packing functional components together even more tightly than 
current technology allows. This requires technical leadership in 
microelectronics system integration, specifically in the 
microelectronics manufacturing areas of integrating heterogeneous 
devices, stacking memory, logic processing, sensors, communications, 
and packaging with security and advanced interconnect methods.
  One of the foundational technologies required for advanced system 
integration is copper-based silicon interposer technology. This 
foundational interposer technology can enable almost any 
microelectronic dependent, or internet of things, system. However, 
advanced system integration capabilities have moved offshore due to 
cost, and there currently is no domestic sources that can reliably 
serve the low volumes of advanced microelectronics that the Department 
of Defense requires.
  That is why there is a need for the Industrial Base Analysis and 
Sustainment Support Program to leverage existing public-private-
partnerships to establish a U.S. based manufacturing development 
platform for advanced microelectronic system integration, including the 
foundational copper-based silicon interposer technology. This funding 
increase will help to accomplish this, and I thank the Chairman for the 
general program increase of $10 million for the Industrial Base 
Analysis and Sustainment Support Program within the Research, 
Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide Account.
  I support the rapid modernization of domestic state-of-the-art 
foundry operations that produce trusted microelectronics and thank the 
Chairman and the Committee for all their work on the issue.

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