Abstract: On September 29, 2017 the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Land and Maritime, announced that on September 1, 2017 they had begun a moratorium on the auditing of wafer fabrication facilities (fabs) used in the production of semiconductor die for military (MIL) qualified integrated circuits and discrete semiconductors (transistors and diodes). The announcement said the moratorium would last for six months initially and would apply to all wafer fabs qualified to MIL-PRF-19500 (discretes) and MIL-…