It is an open secret that, for a variety of reasons, the U.S. manufacturing base has sharply deteriorated over the past three decades, and the semiconductor industry is no exception. In fact, the semiconductor industry may have suffered harder than some other American enterprises. The purpose of this paper is to explain the causes of this decline and offer some common-sense economic policies that may lead to the industry’s revival.

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala., 9 Dec. 2013. U.S. Army aviation leaders are buying six UH-72A Lakota light utility helicopters and six Raytheon AN/ARC-231 aircraft voice and data radios under terms of a $33.2 million contract announced Friday.

WASHINGTON, 8 Dec. 2013. Shipboard electronics experts in the U.S. Coast Guard plan to develop a new integrated navigation system for Coast Guard boats and cutters called The Standardized Scalable Integrated Navigation System-Two (SINS-2), and are asking industry to review the system's proposed specifications.

MONTREAL, 7 Dec. 2013. Industry, government, and academia join forces under the Consortium for Research and Innovation in Aerospace in Quebec (CRAIQ) and SAGE (Safe, Affordable, Green, Efficient) to solve current and future aerospace challenges.

INDIAN HEAD, Md., 5 Dec. 2013. U.S. Navy bomb-disposal experts are asking industry to submit candidate ground-based multispectral and hyperspectral imaging systems for comparative tests and evaluations scheduled for next summer.

It is an open secret that, for a variety of reasons, the U.S. manufacturing base has sharply deteriorated over the past three decades, and the semiconductor industry is no exception. In fact, the semiconductor industry may have suffered harder than some other American enterprises. The purpose of this paper is to explain the causes of this decline and offer some common-sense economic policies that may lead to the industry’s revival.

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala., 9 Dec. 2013. U.S. Army aviation leaders are buying six UH-72A Lakota light utility helicopters and six Raytheon AN/ARC-231 aircraft voice and data radios under terms of a $33.2 million contract announced Friday.

MONTREAL, 7 Dec. 2013. Lockheed Martin Test Pilot Billie Flynn opened the second day of the Aerospace Innovation Forum in Montreal with a talk about innovations in military fighter aircraft.

WASHINGTON, 6 Dec. 2013. U.S. Navy researchers have demonstrated a long-sought-after capability to launch unmanned surveillance aircraft stealthily from submerged submarines, which vastly extends the reach of the Navy's submarine force as a long-range reconnaissance asset.

SAN DIEGO, 9 Dec. 2013. TDK Lambda Americas Corp. in San Diego is introducing the HFE1600D1U dual-output power supply rack for hot-swap power architectures in distributed power architectures, wireless base stations, RF power amplifiers, storage systems, and industrial automation.

DE LEON SPRINGS, Fla., 8 Dec. 2013. The Sparton Corp. Navigation and Exploration segment in De Leon Springs, Fla., is introducing the GEDC-6E improved gyro attitude and heading measurement system and the DC-4E enhanced tilt attitude heading system for unmanned vehicle navigation; weapons targeting; and precision guidance applications.

FREMONT, Calif., 6 Dec. 2013. Elma Electronic Inc. in Fremont, Calif., is introducing the F-Series PCI Express/104 embedded computer for radar and sonar processing; image signal processing; hyperspectral imaging; tactical command and control; surveillance and reconnaissance in defense; transportation, mining and industrial applications.