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Both Russia and China (afaik) work on completely locally sourced production of CPUs with a design which is completely open for DoD review.

This does come at a cost of performance, energy efficiency, high price, etc, but DoD / homeland security offices (or their equivalents) are ready to tolerate it.

Same applies to OSes, but mature open-source OSes are several.




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