The GF Advantage Proven Partnerships Trusted Foundry The GF Advantage: An assured supply of essential semiconductors built in a secure manufacturing environment with supply chain transparency. Back to top… Proven Partnerships Key partners trust GlobalFoundries to manufacture the secure chips they need at scale, and have been doing so for decades. Department of Defense DMEAGF is a Trusted Foundry, accredited by the DoD as a Category 1A Trusted Supplier. We uphold stringent U.S. government requirements for all aspects of designing and producing classified, secure semiconductor components, with both physical and digital security protections.Learn more about our partnership with the Defense Microelectronics Activity and our Trusted Foundry status Lockheed Martin“Lockheed Martin is focused on delivering cutting edge 21st Century Security capabilities that advance deterrence and keep our customers ahead of emerging threats. This begins with securely manufactured semiconductors.”Jim Taiclet, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin.Learn more about our partnership with Lockheed Martin General Motors“We see our semiconductor requirements more than doubling over the next several years as vehicles become technology platforms. The supply agreement with GlobalFoundries will help establish a strong, resilient supply of critical technology in the U.S. that will help GM meet this demand, while delivering new technology and features to our customers.”Doug Parks, GM executive vice president of Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply ChainLearn more about our partnership with General Motors Raytheon Technologies“Our agreement with GlobalFoundries not only demonstrates our common goal to make high performance communications technologies available at an affordable cost to our customers, it continues to prove how investments in advanced defense technologies can improve lives, as well as defend them.“Mark Russell, CTO, Raytheon TechnologiesLearn more about our partnership with Raytheon Back to top… Trusted Foundry: The Proven Security Solution The Trusted Foundry Program is the fastest, most cost effective, and most efficient process for the U.S. Department of Defense to obtain the microelectronics it needs. The proven Trusted Foundry Program is the DoD’s strongest assurance of a company’s ability to produce uncompromised chips for aerospace and defense systems. GF meets the U.S. government’s highest security standards for all aspects of designing and producing classified, secure semiconductor components, both physical and digital. We are the largest and most advanced foundry in the Trusted Foundry network, and the only one capable of producing essential chips at scale. Learn more about GF’s participation in the Trusted Foundry program Back to top… Assured Supply GF is proud to be the only chipmaker producing essential chips securely and at scale inside the United States: With fabs strategically located in Burlington, Vermont, and Malta, New York, as well as Germany and Singapore, you can trust that global disruptions will not compromise your supply of essential chips. You can trust that your chips are being made in the most secure environments, using the most secure processes. You can trust that you will have the chips you need for the applications of today and tomorrow—optimized to mission objectives and providing overmatch. Imagine if critical national security hardware could not be built, maintained, or repaired because of an inadequate supply of essential chips. Don’t let this happen to you. Back to key advantages… Supply Chain Transparency Traditional semiconductor supply chains are inherently opaque. This approach is no longer fit for purpose in an increasingly insecure geopolitical and commercial environment. With GF’s end-to-end traceability, you will have complete transparency of the provenance of your securely manufactured essential chips. Read more about how GF manufactures chips with the highest levels of security inside the U.S. Back to key advantages… Proven Manufacturing Security As an accredited Trusted Foundry and Common Criteria certified supplier, GF employs the most stringent processes, equipment, and oversight necessary for protecting sensitive information and manufacturing chips with the highest levels of security. At our facilities in New York and Vermont, we ensure secure and uncompromised delivery for critical end uses. Trusted Foundry The U.S. Department of Defense’s Trusted Foundry Program is the DoD’s strongest assurance of a company’s ability to produce uncompromised chips for aerospace and defense systems. GF is the largest and most advanced foundry in the Trusted Foundry network, and the only one capable of producing chips at scale. Common Criteria GF holds a Common Criteria certification, an internationally recognized standard for producing goods that require an extra level of security and integrity in the manufacturing process. GF Shield These protections are further strengthened by GF’s industry-leading, comprehensive GF Shield security platform, designed to safeguard and protect our customers’ intellectual property and products. Chips not following this approach risk being compromised and subsequently—remotely or otherwise—triggered to shut down a system or perform other damaging actions by those with ill intents. We must prevent this from happening, to protect both national and economic security.”Ezra Hall, GF Senior Director of Aerospace and Defense Business Read more from Ezra on the importance of ensuring a supply of trusted chips for critical needs. Back to key advantages… TechnicalEdge Differentiated Solutions GF’s differentiated, U.S.-made chip solutions provide unique, mission-enabling capabilities and optimized performance and reliability for aerospace, defense and critical infrastructure applications. GF drives innovation and enhances the security of chips used in crucial systems, including power grids and wireless communications to banking, hospitals and national security systems and satellites. Features of these chip technologies include: Operating in harsh environments and space Class-leading millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications capabilities Communicating with photons instead of electrons for extreme performance at lowest possible power Embedded non-volatile memory What else would you expect from chips used in the International Space Station? Delivering Advanced Power-Management Functionality GF chips have a game-changing ability to integrate combinations of high-performance signal processing, power, RF communications, and memory onto a system-on-a-chip (SoC). Instead of large, heavy power-hungry racks comprised of many boards containing many chips, SoC systems can be designed into one or several chips to not only perform the same functionality, but extend capabilities, range, reduce size, weight, and power. That’s a game-changer, especially for the increasingly smaller and more pervasive defense applications of the future. Back to key advantages… Trusted Foundry:The Proven Security Solution The Trusted Foundry model has proven effective over many years at supplying secure access to microelectronics for certain classes of DoD and national security systems.”Dr. David Honey, DoD Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, April 21, 2022 The U.S. Department of Defense’s Trusted Foundry Program is the DoD’s strongest assurance of a company’s ability to produce uncompromised chips for aerospace and defense systems. GF meets the U.S. government’s gold standard for all aspects of designing and producing classified, secure semiconductor components, both physical and digital. The GF team pioneered the Trusted Foundry program, first with the NSA and now with the Defense Microelectronics Activity. Today, GF is the largest and most advanced foundry in the Trusted Foundry network, and the only one capable of producing essential chips at scale. GF’s U.S. sites have Trusted Foundry accreditation, with stringent security processes, equipment, and oversight in place to accept and protect sensitive information and manufacture Trusted chips in a way that ensures they are secure and uncompromised: Burlington, Vermont Trusted Foundry Accreditation Malta, New York Trusted Foundry Accreditation Back to top… Proven Partnerships Lockheed Martin In June 2023, GF and Lockheed Martin announced a strategic collaboration to advance U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and innovation and increase the security, reliability and resiliency of domestic supply chains for national security systems. The companies will leverage GF’s differentiated technology and trusted manufacturing practices to increase anti-fragility in microelectronics systems and supply chains. As a result, Lockheed Martin can more quickly and affordably produce secure solutions that increase the competitiveness and national security of the United States. When you have complex supply chains, there are a lot of parts that change hands. If there’s fewer parts that change hands, that reduces your fragility. Going right to GF only decreases our complexity.”Dr. Brent Segal, Lockheed Martin Director of Collaboration In The News GlobalFoundries and Lockheed Martin announce strategic manufacturing partnershipSpectrum News 1 AlbanyWatch Now Lockheed Martin, Global Foundries Team Up on Domestic Aerospace and Defense Chip Production Aviation WeekRead More Lockheed Martin collaborates with Global Foundries to secure defense chip supply.ReutersRead More “Lockheed Martin is focused on delivering cutting-edge 21st Century Security capabilities that advance deterrence and keep our customers ahead of emerging threats. This begins with securely manufactured semiconductors.”Jim Taiclet, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin. Read more about the GF and Lockheed Martin partnership here. Back to top… DoD DMEA In September 2023, the DoD awarded GF a 10-year, $3.1 billion contract to supply securely manufactured, U.S.-made semiconductors for use across a wide range of critical aerospace and defense applications. DoD had confidence to award this contract through the Trusted Access Program Office in part because GF is the only semiconductor manufacturer in the U.S. capable of producing the chips the DoD needs at scale. This new contract is the third sequential 10-year contract of its kind between the DoD and the Trusted Foundry business team at GF and is the latest milestone in the longstanding partnership between the department and the company. Click here to learn more about the importance and impact of GF’s Trusted Foundry accreditations. Read more about the GF-DoD partnership here. This partnership provides DoD programs with ‘front-door access’ to advanced technologies in a way that is scalable and highly efficient. For this work, GF is accredited to provide the right level of security required for each program, from GF’s industry leading GF Shield protections, to strictly export controlled handling (e.g. ITAR), to the highest level of accredited microelectronics manufacturing security on the planet, Trusted Category 1A.”Mike Cadigan, GF Chief Corporate and Government Affairs Officer Back to top… Raytheon In 2021, GF and Raytheon agreed to collaborate to develop and commercialize a new gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) semiconductor that will enable game-changing radio frequency performance for 5G and 6G mobile and wireless infrastructure applications. In The News GlobalFoundries Continues Enhancing Its Manufacturing Technology Through Strategic PartnershipsForbesRead More Raytheon Technologies and GlobalFoundries partner to accelerate 5G wireless connectivity Military+Aerospace ElectronicsRead More Read more from GF on our partnership with Raytheon here. Our agreement with GlobalFoundries not only demonstrates our common goal to make high performance communications technologies available at an affordable cost to our customers, it continues to prove how investments in advanced defense technologies can improve lives, as well as defend them.”Mark Russell, Raytheon Technologies Chief Technology Officer Back to top… General Motors Companies throughout the commercial sector are recognizing the value of trusting GF to produce the chips they need inside the U.S. In the wake of pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions, General Motors has partnered with GF to source more chips from trusted sources and create supply chain resiliency. The supply agreement with GlobalFoundries will help establish a strong, resilient supply of critical technology in the U.S. that will help GM meet this demand, while delivering new technology and features to our customers”Doug Parks, GM GM executive vice president of global product development, purchasing and supply chain In The News General Motors signs deal with GlobalFoundries for exclusive U.S. semiconductor productionCNBCWatch Now GM, GlobalFoundries Sign Chip Supply DealThe Wall Street JournalRead More Reimagining the Automotive Semiconductor Supply Chain with GlobalFoundriesNASDAQRead More GlobalFoundries identified the supply chain disruption as an opportunity for innovation and developed its direct-to-source model, alleviating supply chain pressures and providing automakers with more direct access to semiconductors specifically made for their products.”“We bridge the supply chain relationship…We discuss the needs for that auto OEM and ensure we can provide the technologies they care about, in the locations they care about, and that the economics are transparent to them.” Kamal Khouri, Vice President & General Manager for Automotive at Global Foundries Back to top…
