S. 4810 — CHIPS Training in America Act of 2026

This section authorizes the establishment and maintenance of a single publicly accessible online clearinghouse of microelectronics education and workforce development information under the CHIPS for America workforce and education fund.

This section expands the required elements of the national strategy on microelectronics research, development, manufacturing, and supply chain security to include the development of competency-based degree, credentialing, and certificate frameworks to increase standardization within semiconductor and microelectronics workforce development programs.

This section adds the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Education, and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to the Subcommittee on microelectronics leadership solely for workforce duties. It requires the Subcommittee to develop, within 1 year of enactment of the CHIPS Training in America Act of 2026, a 5-year national strategy on microelectronics workforce development that sets objectives and metrics, coordinates elementary through postsecondary education, aligns with CHIPS and Science Act investments and the America COMPETES STEM plan, and updates the strategy at least every 5 years.

This section establishes a competitive grant program, administered by the National Semiconductor Technology Center, to fund eligible partnerships for workforce development programs in semiconductor manufacturing, equipment, materials, advanced packaging, microelectronics, computer science, and engineering. Eligible institutions are limited to community colleges, postsecondary vocational institutions, and area career and technical education schools; grants are capped at $7 million each for up to 5 years with a 50 percent federal cost share; priority goes to partnerships in areas with growing microelectronics ecosystems; and annual reports on participant outcomes are required.

This section prohibits a federal agency from establishing a microelectronics education and workforce clearinghouse that duplicates or serves as an alternative to the online clearinghouse authorized in section 102(d) of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022.