# 2025-00727: Uncle Sam Wants Your Ideas on Buying American Computer Chips

2025-00727, Advancing the Domestic Manufacturing of Semiconductors in Commercial Information Technology, is a Federal Register notice from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-15, effective Responses to this request for information will be accepted for consideration until March 17, 2025.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00727
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-00727
- Title: Advancing the Domestic Manufacturing of Semiconductors in Commercial Information Technology
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-15
- Effective: Responses to this request for information will be accepted for consideration until March 17, 2025.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Uncle Sam Wants Your Ideas on Buying American Computer Chips

## Summary

The government wants your ideas on how to boost making computer chips right here in the U.S. They’re looking to buy more tech products with American-made semiconductors to keep supply chains strong and create jobs. If you have thoughts, send them in by March 17, 2025, to help shape future rules and investments.

## Abstract

This request for information (RFI) seeks input on ways the Federal Government can build the resilience of domestic semiconductor manufacturing and maintain this essential capability through the procurement of commercial IT end products that include semiconductors fabricated in the United States. Specific feedback is sought on potential procurement approaches to minimize supply chain disruption and increase fabrication of semiconductors in the United States.

## Effects PRIA read

- Potential Ban on Foreign-Made Chips: cost, medium. The notice says there could be future rulemaking to prohibit Federal agencies from procuring semiconductors manufactured in certain countries. If that happens, companies that now buy chips from those countries may need to change suppliers or stop bidding on some Federal contracts.
- Competitions Limiting Awards to Domestic-Chip Users: mixed, high. OMB asks about agency competitions that are limited to offerors who use only domestically manufactured semiconductors or other requirements that ensure at least some U.S.-made chips are used. Such rules could create new market opportunities for U.S. chip makers but may require bidders to change sup…
- Dual Sourcing Contract Requirements: mixed, medium. The RFI specifically asks about requiring contractors to use at least two suppliers for a component, with at least one supplier providing domestically manufactured semiconductors. That would push suppliers to add backup domestic sources to their supply chains.
- Using Industrial Mobilization to Favor Domestic Supply: mixed, medium. The notice highlights the industrial mobilization exception that can limit full and open competition for a time to award contracts to particular domestic sources to create or maintain domestic production capability. Agencies could temporarily restrict competition to grow U.S. manufacturing capacity.
- Large Federal Market Opportunity for Domestic Chips: benefit, high. The notice notes that last year the Federal Government purchased about $10 billion in IT hardware (including about 1.5 million mobile devices and 1.3 million laptops), about $14 billion in cloud computing, and $5.43 billion in telecom services. That scale represents a significant potential market f…

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## Sources
- [2025-00727 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00727/advancing-the-domestic-manufacturing-of-semiconductors-in-commercial-information-technology)
- [2025-00727 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-15/pdf/2025-00727.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00727 (as of 2026-06-08).