Ben Schwartz

Ben Schwartz, the former director for national security at the CHIPS Program Office, shares insights from his work managing a $39 billion grant program focused on reshoring semiconductor manufacturing. He discusses the balance between economic growth and national security in the context of the CHIPS Act. Schwartz elaborates on the challenges of reshoring and friend-shoring in an era of Chinese dominance, while addressing the complexities of supply chain data collection and compliance hurdles for semiconductor companies.