McCaul Discusses Securing our Supply Chain of National Security Products at Aspen Security Forum
Washington, D.C.- Yesterday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul participated in a panel on securing our supply chain of national security products at the Aspen Security Forum. McCaul especially highlighted the need for semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S., independent from China. The panel was moderated by Director of the Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum, Anja Manuel, and panelists included Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Corporate Vice President and Chief Government Affairs Office of Intel, Bruce Andrews, and President and CEO of Healthcare Distribution Alliance, Chester “Chip” Davis Jr.
On Semiconductors
“Communist China is the greatest long term national security threat to the United States…Covid was a wake-up call…It opened everyone’s eyes to the fact that we are so dependent on them…I introduced this bill (CHIPS For America Act) because working with the prior administration, it was called to my attention how important this issue is…As Bruce laid it out, it’s everything in your phone, but also our most advanced weapons systems, and we can’t have a supply chain that’s going to be compromised…We cannot allow these chips to be compromised and the only way you can do that is to bring that manufacturing either to the United States by incentives, both tax incentives or a grant program, but also our allied nations. If we can’t do that, we’re gonna fail.”