FY2024 CHIPS Manufacturing USA Institute Competition
Funding Agency:
- Department of Commerce/EDA
The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 appropriated $50 billion to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s (the Department) CHIPS for America program to strengthen semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. This amount includes $39 billion for the Department to onshore semiconductor manufacturing through an incentives program and $11 billion to advance U.S. leadership in semiconductor research and development (R&D). These R&D advances will be realized through four programs: the CHIPS National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC), the CHIPS National Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Program (NAPMP), the CHIPS Metrology Program, and the CHIPS Manufacturing USA Program. These investments, across both the R&D and incentives programs, seek to strengthen U.S. competitiveness, support domestic production and innovation, create good jobs across the country—with working conditions consistent with the Good Jobs Principles published by the Department and the U.S. Department of Labor—and advance U.S. economic and national security.
Within the CHIPS for America program, the mission of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) CHIPS Research and Development Office (CHIPS R&D) is to accelerate the development and commercial deployment of foundational semiconductor technologies by establishing, connecting, and providing access to domestic research efforts, tools, resources, workers, and facilities. CHIPS R&D aims to achieve the following goals by 2030:
• U.S. Technology Leadership: The United States establishes the capacity to invent, develop, prototype, manufacture, and deploy the foundational semiconductor technologies of the future.
• Accelerated Ideas to Market: The best ideas achieve commercial scale as quickly and cost effectively as possible.
• Robust Semiconductor Workforce: Inventors, designers, researchers, developers, engineers, technicians, and staff meet evolving domestic government and commercial sector needs.
NIST anticipates awarding up to approximately $285M in Federal funding for a single Institute award, with a performance period of up to five years.
Concept Paper Due June 20, 2024
Invited Full Applications Due September 9, 2024
Misty L Roosa
Management Analyst
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