Kyle Squires, dean of the Fulton Schools and Sally Morton, executive vice president of ASU’s Knowledge Enterprise, will lead a team of ASU faculty, staff and partners to form the Microelectronics Commons, a national network funded by the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. The team is a response to the U.S. Department of Defense request for solutions, which solicits regional hubs that have “lab prototyping capabilities and sources of microelectronics talent for onshore, lab-to-fab transition of semiconductor technologies,” Squires and Morton will direct ASU’s strategic proposal to the defense department to create and operate a Microelectronics Commons to pursue innovation in the field and help the U.S. become the global leader in microchip research, development and manufacturing. (Access to the full content of the Phoenix Business Journal is available only to subscribers.)