The Defense Department has awarded a combined $17.5 million to two initiatives that aim to strengthen the resilience of the defense microelectronics industrial base. The Enterprise Parts Management System (EPMS) will receive an investment of $6 million and the Defense Business Accelerator (DBX) and Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Market Catalyst project will receive initial funding of $11.5 million over the span of three years through DOD’s office of industrial base policy’s manufacturing capability expansion and investment prioritization office. Both projects...
