WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- Sen. Mark Kelly issued the following press release:
"Some of our most advanced weapon systems are relying on chips that are old, sometimes outdated and sometimes decades behind the state-of-the-art technology."
This week, during a Senate Armed Services Committee (https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/to-receive-testimony-on-rebuilding-american-critical-minerals-supply-chains) hearing on our nation's supply chains of critical minerals and semiconductor chips, Arizona Senator and Navy combat veteran Mark Kelly questioned Department of Defense officials about the continued use of outdated semiconductor technology in major U.S. weapons systems. Kelly raised concerns that the slow transition to newer, more secu...