Strategies to Enable Assured Access to Semiconductors for the Department of Defense (2024)
Chapter: Appendix C: A Semiconductor PublicPrivate Partnership Playbook
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"Appendix C: A Semiconductor PublicPrivate Partnership Playbook." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Strategies to Enable Assured Access to Semiconductors for the Department of Defense. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27624.
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A Semiconductor Public–Private Partnership Playbook
Given the considerations outlined in Chapter 4, Table C-1 describes a multiphase approach that could be followed to facilitate the creation of a public–private partnership to advance semiconductor manufacturing.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix C: A Semiconductor PublicPrivate Partnership Playbook." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Strategies to Enable Assured Access to Semiconductors for the Department of Defense. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27624.
TABLE C-1 Multiphase Approach for Creation of a Public–Private Partnership (PPP) to Advance Semiconductor Manufacturing
| Task | Implementation | Key Consideration(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phase I (3–6 months) | Establish a single entity (e.g., an LLC) empowered to operate the PPP | Founding membership | Membership solicitation (notice of funding opportunity, request for proposal, etc.). |
| This entity should act as a “single window” through which PPP members contract (rather than subcontracting with each other). | |||
| Within this entity, create a board of directors, a Department of Defense (DoD) interface center, a business office, and advisory committees | Management board DoD PPP interface office | This board should provide overall guidance on PPP objectives, budget, and spending, and evaluate progress. This DoD office should be tasked aligning the PPP’s activities with DoD’s mission needs. |
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| Central business office | This office should be tasked with daily PPP operations, including facility management, personnel, and information technology. | ||
| Advisory committees | Finance committee: Determine terms and conditions of PPP membership levels, evaluate expenses, and manage budgets and contracts. | ||
| Business committee: Serve as the business development/marketing arm of the PPP. | |||
| Technology committee: Develop technical research agenda, goals, metrics for success, and risks. | |||
| Defense user committee: Gather customer needs and ensure PPP activities are meeting the requirements of the Combatant Commands, major commands, and other users. Could also include defense industrial base systems integrators that will adopt microelectronics onto defense platforms. | |||
| Intellectual property (IP) committee: Establish mutually agreeable terms and conditions for IP treatment. |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix C: A Semiconductor PublicPrivate Partnership Playbook." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Strategies to Enable Assured Access to Semiconductors for the Department of Defense. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27624.
| Task | Implementation | Key Consideration(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phase II (3–6 months) | Develop technology roadmaps, timeline, goals, and metrics for success | Establish technical working groups | These technical working groups should focus on specific subtasks, assigning timelines, goals, and risks. |
| Determine partnerships necessary to execute roadmap | Procure and prepare physical space for PPP research operations (e.g., cleanrooms, warehousing), establish subcontracts with key vendors/suppliers | This should be coordinated with the finance and business committees. | |
| Phase III (2 years) | Operations | Technical working groups | Working groups should report progress and risks to the technology committee on a monthly and quarterly basis. |
| IP review | As progress is made, the IP committee should review inventions and technical advances, and classify inventions for patent applications or as a trade secret. | ||
| Review cost, schedule, and performance | The advisory committees should convene quarterly to assess overall progress toward stated metrics of success. | ||
| External Engagement | External advisory group | A group of representatives from non-PPP members should convene to review the PPP’s progress on its stated research agenda annually. | |
| Coordination with associations | To every extent practical, updates on the PPP’s research agenda and progress should be shared with relevant national and international industry associations, including via conferences. | ||
| Additional PPP membership | The PPP should remain open to “late entrants” who wish to participate after the PPP has begun its initial work. Solicitation of these new members and management of their terms of membership should be handled by the business and finance committees. |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix C: A Semiconductor PublicPrivate Partnership Playbook." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Strategies to Enable Assured Access to Semiconductors for the Department of Defense. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27624.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix C: A Semiconductor PublicPrivate Partnership Playbook." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Strategies to Enable Assured Access to Semiconductors for the Department of Defense. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27624.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix C: A Semiconductor PublicPrivate Partnership Playbook." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Strategies to Enable Assured Access to Semiconductors for the Department of Defense. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27624.
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