{"id":26594,"date":"2016-06-07T23:02:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T06:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/security-experts-wary-of-the-pentagons-new-microchip-supplier"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:57:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:57:03","slug":"security-experts-wary-of-the-pentagons-new-microchip-supplier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/security-experts-wary-of-the-pentagons-new-microchip-supplier","title":{"rendered":"Security experts wary of the Pentagon\u2019s new microchip supplier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/security-experts-wary-of-the-pentagons-new-microchip-supplier.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To provide computing power for the U.S. arsenal of advanced weaponry, satellites and information systems, the Pentagon has entered into a seven-year deal with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalfoundries.com\/\">Globalfoundries Inc<\/a>, an Abu Dhabi-owned microchip manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>The move serves to diversify the Defense Department\u2019s microchip supply chain \u2014 an issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/blog\/Lists\/Posts\/Post.aspx?ID=2112\">particular concern for some defense officials<\/a> \u2014 which has been dominated by a short list of sellers led by IBM for over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>A microchip is a small, wafer-thin semiconductor used to relay information through an electrical grid, thereby making an integrated circuit. Almost every modern digital device is chock-full of microchips.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/fedscoop.com\/why-security-experts-are-wary-of-the-pentagons-new-microchip-supplier\">http:\/\/fedscoop.com\/why-security-experts-are-wary-of-the-pen...p-supplier<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To provide computing power for the U.S. arsenal of advanced weaponry, satellites and information systems, the Pentagon has entered into a seven-year deal with Globalfoundries Inc, an Abu Dhabi-owned microchip manufacturer. The move serves to diversify the Defense Department\u2019s microchip supply chain \u2014 an issue of particular concern for some defense officials \u2014 which has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,9,2028,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-military","category-satellites","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67285,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26594\/revisions\/67285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}