The $2 billion, multiyear Defense Department initiative to accelerate domestic semiconductor chip production is shifting its focus in fiscal year 2027 toward transitioning projects into growing prototype production using part of its annual $400 million allocation, per the program's recently released budget justification book. The CHIPS and Science Act in 2022 allocated $2 billion across FY-23 through FY-27 to the Microelectronics Commons program -- which results in $400 million per fiscal year going toward the initiative. Part of that money,...