SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good morning, everyone. It is incredibly exciting to be here at Purdue at the Birck Center. It's - what we've seen this morning is for me an incredible source of optimism, optimism about the future of our country, optimism about the leadership of our country around the world on the most important technology that's going to power this century and beyond. And I really just want to say mostly thank you to President Daniels, who was with us earlier, to the governor, the senator, for - not just for today, but I have to say for your remarkable leadership across the board in making sure here at Purdue that the United States remains the great technology leader in the world.
This place is maybe one of the most inspiring human fabs that I've ever seen. And we know that some of the students that we met today are going to go on to do extraordinary things in the years ahead.
The last thing I'll say is this: Why am I here as Secretary of State? Simply because what we're doing at home, and particularly what is happening here, goes directly to our standing and leadership in the world. And what we've seen in American technological leadership in general and what we've seen just in recent weeks with the passage of the CHIPS Act, that is resonating around the world. And I really want to applaud in particular Senator Young for his extraordinary leadership from the takeoff to the landing of the CHIPS Act. This is one of the most significant things that we've done as a country, and just speaking as someone who has the responsibility of representing our country around the world, it is making a big difference around the world as well as here at home in the jobs of the future that we're going to be creating too. Thank you. Gina.
SECRETARY RAIMONDO: Thank you and good morning. Thank you all, Boilermakers, who welcomed us today. We had a fantastic tour this morning, and thank you to President Daniels, who welcomed us. Thank you to my colleagues - fantastic partner in Tony Blinken. Thank you to the governor, who has helped us get the CHIPS Act over the finish line. But big thank you to Senator Young. Truly without whom CHIPS would not have happened. He was an early sponsor and stuck with it all the way through. So thank you. It was a bipartisan effort, which I think is a critical thing to point out.
And the CHIPS Act is a - it's an investment in America. It's actually the biggest investment in kind of industrial policy, research, and development that we've seen in a generation in America. And it will unleash not only R&D, but the opportunity to create hundreds of thousands of high‑paying jobs in the semiconductor industry all over America, including in the heartland, right here in Indiana. And Purdue, what's happening here, is at the heart - is at the heart and soul of that, the center of that. We talked today about going from lab to fab. It's about taking research and development that starts in research university and bringing it through to products that power American innovation.
I also want to announce this morning that the Department of Commerce through NIST, the National Institute of Standards, which is in the Department of Commerce, is announcing a partnership with SkyWater right here in Indiana, a semiconductor company, and Google to provide free-of-cost, open source wafer designs to universities, so that we can do exactly the kind of research that's happening here in this facility. By providing these designs for free, open source, this is a public-private federal government collaboration that will help us to fuel this sort of wafer technology in research and development. So exactly what the CHIPS Act was meant to do, and exactly what you're doing so well here at Purdue. So thank you for having us.
GOVERNOR HOLCOMB: Thank you, Madam Secretary, and I think it's fair to say our longtime friendship has taken us to many places both past, present, and most importantly, maybe most excitingly into the future.
And Secretary Blinken, it is truly a proud moment for all Hoosiers to welcome you to our state. President Daniels, thank you for rolling out the red carpet yet again. This is —
MR DANIELS: Not red.
(Laughter.)
GOVERNOR HOLCOMB: Roll out the golden carpet. (Laughter.) He makes a habit of correcting me. But let me just say what this highlights to me, and what the source of my pride is: just the collaboration and being able to harness the synergy of local (inaudible), state government, all of our institutions, all of our investments - building communities from rural to urban settings and then the federal partnership that has allowed us not just to compete in this new opportunity but also to take a - have a sense of responsibility about where we will end up five years, ten years, 20 years from today. Indiana won't look the same; indeed, the country won't look the same. We're not just catching up, we're leading the way. Purdue has proven that over the years with the technological advancements that they have discovered and created and shared with the world (inaudible).
SENATOR YOUNG: The bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act is the sort of economic and national security win that really only comes together once every couple of generations. This is a bipartisan initiative. I'm very excited to have played a leading role in authoring this and getting it through the process, but now it's time for implementation. I am so happy that we have our Secretary of State and Secretary of Commerce on the ground here on Hoosier soil to see how Hoosier workers and our universities and our state government and other stakeholders are poised to take advantage of the many provisions in this legislation to ensure that we outgrow, out-innovate, and out-compete the Chinese Communist Party to ensure that American values prevail.
The technologies that are funded from the research to design to the manufacturing incentive level that are - that's incorporated in this legislation are going to be technologies that define our 21st-century economy that we work and live but also they'll define the future of our national security. And to give rank and file Hoosiers a golden opportunity to participate in that meaningful work during a time when many people are wondering where they fit in economically because of the dynamism of this 21st-century economy is really exciting to me.
And so having Secretary Blinken and Secretary Raimondo here, who I partnered with very actively as we work together to get this legislation passed, is heartwarming. Of course, President Daniels, the leadership that you and so many others have shown here at Purdue University is also encouraging as Indiana looks to benefit maximally from this legislation. And my friend the governor with his continued leadership, there is no stopping Hoosiers as it relates to ensuring that the American taxpayer and rank and file Hoosiers get the maximum possible benefit from this effort. So thanks, all.
PARTICIPANT: (Inaudible), sir. (Laughter.)
MR DANIELS: We all know how deeply honored we are to have these two great public servants - these four great public servants with us today. I'm grateful to the brilliant world-class faculty and the students at Purdue University whose work has attracted them, and we hope to bring them back for kind of status updates in the future.
Let me just say that as a public university, a land grant university, we feel profoundly our responsibility to turn out as many high-class new talents for this state and nation as we can, and we've grown quickly in order to do that here.
Lastly, I'll just point out that one of our most, we think, profound responsibilities is to contribute to the economic vitality of the state and the nation through our research and through those young talents I mentioned. Here all around you, you can see our latest venture. This will be, I do truly believe, the center of semiconductor advance and production in the decades ahead.
And finally, we also embrace, as not all universities frankly do, a duty to assist the national security in any way we can in areas like hypersonics, energetics, and now, what we believe is a -very genuinely a national security imperative: to have self-sufficiency and leadership in semiconductors. We hope to play a role.
So today I think is emblematic of all those missions that Purdue accepts, and we'll deepen our resolve to do a good job at all of them. Thanks for coming.
