Lawmakers want the Defense Department to explain how losing U.S.-based trusted foundries negatively impacts its weapon systems that require trusted microprocessors. In the fiscal year 2016 omnibus spending bill, which President Obama signed into law Friday, lawmakers call for the defense secretary to submit a report to the congressional defense committees within 90 days of the law's enactment that addresses these issues. "Maintaining a United States-based foundry that supplies trusted microprocessors for the Department of Defense and the intelligence community...
