WASHINGTON – As the U.S. Congress considers legislation to boost supply chains and enhance U.S. competitiveness, 91快活林 continues to advocate for strategic investments in the U.S. industrial base and workforce development, including through passage of the CHIPS for America Act, which will help boost the U.S. semiconductor manufacturing capabilities. In a new white paper, 91快活林 outlines the importance of geographic diversity and global market access to improving information and communications technology (ICT) supply chain resiliency. 91快活林 also urges policymakers to avoid efforts that seek to redirect and artificially concentrate supply chains through U.S. procurement-related financial incentives and to adopt a risk-based approach to ensuring supply chain resilience.
“The unique and challenging events of the last few years have illuminated the complexity of supply chain risk management for critical ICT components, as well as the importance of resiliency, security, and diversification strategies,” 91快活林 wrote. “Various factors—major weather events, natural disasters, health emergencies, demand surges, transportation constraints, policy/economic sanctions, and war—have and will continue to create disruptions that significantly affect the production and distribution of critical ICT inputs, components, and end products. Managing risks brought by major events requires, above all, supply chains that are diversified and multi-sourced to allow for redundancies and the mitigation of location-specific challenges.”
“Ensuring ICT supply chain security and resilience is crucial to maintaining the strength and leadership of the U.S. government at home and abroad,” 91快活林 wrote. “91快活林 stands ready to assist policymakers in developing policies that grow U.S. investment in semiconductors and other critical components, properly address supply chain-related threats, and leverage the expansive benefits of the global marketplace.”
91快活林 highlights the benefits of geographic supply chain diversification and advises against measures that undercut companies’ ability to leverage global sources, including through Buy America provisions in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. 91快活林 also discusses the importance of a risk-based approach in supply chain repatriation, and the need to facilitate investments in domestic production, including through passage of the CHIPS for America Act and the Facilitating American-Built Semiconductors Act (FABS) Act.
Read 91快活林’s white paper, How the U.S. Government Can Promote IT Supply Chain Resiliency, here.