Update on CHIPS Act Implementation
ABSTRACT
In August 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act. The CHIPS Act established a CHIPS for America Fund, totaling approximately $50 billion, for the U.S. Department of Commerce to administer to strengthen semiconductor manufacturing in America, where the integrated circuit was first invented. In addition to the construction of new fabs, CHIPS for America addresses the need for a resilient domestic microelectronics supply chain of materials and equipment suppliers, and a workforce trained for a range of technical capabilities. This talk will provide details about the rapidly developing CHIPS for America program, including the Research and Development Office, along with updates and some examples to illustrate the CHIPS vision for interaction with the semiconductor community.
BIOGRAPHY
Laurie Locascio is currently the Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Locascio most recently served as vice president for research at the University of Maryland College Park and University of Maryland Baltimore. She also served as a professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the A. James Clark School of Engineering with a secondary appointment in the Department of Pharmacology in the School of Medicine. Before joining the University of Maryland, Locascio worked at NIST for 31 years, rising from a research biomedical engineer to eventually leading the agency’s Material Measurement Laboratory. She also served as the acting associate director for laboratory programs, the No. 2 position at NIST, providing direction and operational guidance for NIST’s lab research programs.
As a researcher, she has published 115 scientific papers and has received 12 patents in the fields of bioengineering and analytical chemistry. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the American Chemical Society, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Locascio has a B.S. in chemistry from James Madison University, an M.S. in bioengineering from the University of Utah, and a Ph.D. in toxicology from the University of Maryland Baltimore.