A proposed nearly $900 million investment in microelectronics is among the drivers of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's $4.1 billion fiscal year 2023 budget request, the agency's director said this week. The $896 million in planned microelectronics spending, Stefanie Tompkins told an online National Defense Industrial Association audience Wednesday, is tied to DARPA’s plans to launch the second iteration of its nearly five-year-old Electronics Resurgence Initiative, called ERI 2.0. That effort, Tompkins said, was initially focused on “reshoring and...
