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摘要

The push toward globalization, combined with the proliferation of commercial and consumer products containing Ics, has led to rapid semiconductor business growth in Asia. Ics specifically produced for military applications make up a small percent of the total market, ranging from 0.1 to 1%. Due to low-volume requirements, the military is not capable of meaningful influence, resulting in a larger disparity between commercial and military requirements. Most IC fabrication and considerable intellectual property design is performed overseas, while domestic, trusted foundry options are often two to three process nodes (three to eight years) behind state-of-the-art (SOTA), with 50% higher cost. To take advantage of SOTA technologies, US military systems are forced to utilize commercially available supply chains. Offshore design, production, and independent distribution of Ics provide adversarial opportunity for malicious insertion and component counterfeiting, motivated by strategic objectives or economic gain. To combat this, while maintaining access to SOTA technologies, the US military must develop an approach to minimize platform and infrastructure risk, enabling cutting-edge capability to be delivered to the war fighter. Data-driven assurance methods provide an opportunity to deliver such capability, along with an understanding of associated risk. (SMTA Symposium on Counterfeit Parts and Materials, August 2020).