CMU Student Database is the Secret Weapon for Federal Chip Oversight
As the federal government invests more than $50 billion to rebuild the U.S. semiconductor industry, a team of students from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy helped the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) build the first known comprehensive inventory of state and local semiconductor incentives in the post-CHIPS and Science Act era.
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