
The Pentagon’s top acquisition official said Thursday there’s increasing momentum for a national policy to assist with reshoring suppliers for critical capabilities such as microelectronics, with the department planning its own initiatives to bolster domestic supply chains. Ellen Lord, the under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, said during a Reagan Institute discussion her office has worked on a five-month study to assess the microelectronics industrial base “to understand [challenges] from foundries to packaging, logic to memory.” “We have…