Momentum is building as advocacy, investment and policy alignment push US electronics manufacturing into a new growth phase.

There was a time not very long ago when North American electronics manufacturing was in pure survival mode. PCB shops were shuttering. Assembly lines were moving overseas. Critical defense suppliers were hanging on by their fingernails. The story of the American electronics industry was becoming a story of contraction, not growth.

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Hope that nothing will interrupt imports of PCBs and parts is not a strategy.

There’s a crisis in our industry that few want to talk about and even fewer want to admit. It’s not a quality crisis. It’s not a pricing crisis. It’s not even a technology crisis. It’s a dependency crisis, and it threatens our companies, our customers and our country.

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The PCBAA is on a mission to ensure domestic security via a revitalized American manufacturing base.

Across the United States, a quiet but urgent realization has been taking shape – one that echoes through defense briefings, aerospace reviews, medical device evaluations and critical infrastructure planning sessions. The nation that once led the world in electronics manufacturing now faces a stark truth: the ability to design and manufacture advanced electronics on domestic soil has diminished to dangerous levels.

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