Typhoon Haiyan swept through the Philippines leaving a trail of damage and destruction. The typhoon was the strongest typhoon to make landfall in recorded history. It is estimated that more than 10,000 people are dead or missing, and millions more remain homeless.

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.

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.