Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Jim Brinker, president and general manager of Intel’s federal business arm, as an inductee into the 2022 edition of the Wash100 Award for supporting the company’s semiconductor-focused efforts and promoting collaborations with industry partners and government agencies. This marks the third consecutive Wash100 Award for Brinker. Visit Wash100.com to cast your votes […] More

Intevac has received a five-year, $16 million contract from the U.S. Army to continue manufacturing cameras for Apache military attack helicopters. The company said Monday it will supply Electronic Image Intensification devices to the service branch’s Modernized Pilot Night Vision Sensor program as part of the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Under the IDIQ award, Intevac will help […] More

CACI International has secured spot on the Fortune 500 list of largest companies in the U.S. for the 2020 fiscal year, marking the first time the information technology products and services provider was included in the annual revenue-based ranking. The company attributed the recognition to its continued growth that was demonstrated by its FY20 revenue […] More

Intel has allocated $3.5 billion in funding to expand its Rio Rancho campus in New Mexico to accommodate production of advanced semiconductor packaging technologies in addition to manufacturing memory storage, embedded multi-die interconnect bridge and silicon photonics technologies currently done at the site.

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GenXComm, a Texas-based radio frequency systems provider, has landed a contract of undisclosed value from the U.S. Army to integrate an analog interference cancellation technology into the service branch’s tactical tools.

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The International Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing Research has received a $7.6M contract from the U.S. Air Force to facilitate research and development activities on using blockchain concepts for manufacturing semiconductors.

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A team of Lockheed Martin engineers helped integrate an Ariel Photonics-built countermeasure technology into the Modular Active Protection Systems framework for a live-fire test series that took place at the U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal base in Alabama.

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched the second phase of a potential five-year, $1.5B program that aims to advance microelectronics innovation through new microsystem designs, materials and architectures. DARPA said Thursday the Electronics Resurgence Initiative’s Phase II seeks to address the need to support domestic production options to advance capability development for diverse needs; […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen Synopsys to develop a technology to emulate system-on-chips as part of DARPA’s Electronics Resurgence Initiative. Synopsys said Wednesday it will collaborate with Lockheed Martin and Analog Devices on the Posh Open Source Hardware program that aims to improve the quality of mixed-signal SoC platforms intended for defense and aerospace use. DARPA seeks to establish a […] More

UES has won a potential $22 million contract to help U.S. Air Force researchers study the characteristics of aerospace materials. The company will develop methods, software and tools to aid materials characterization and microanalysis research related to electron, ion, x-ray and optical microscopy, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD noted that contract work will run through April 3, […] More

The National Institute of Standards and Technology will award approximately $3.9 million in total grants to 21 small businesses to research and develop novel technology platforms. NIST said Monday it selected the companies based on their submitted proposals that seek to address challenges across several technology areas such as collaboration and partnership; precision measurements; systems; data […] More

A Technavio report forecasts the compound annual growth rate for the global military submarine photonics mast and antenna market will reach nearly 6 percent by 2021 due to a demand for multifunctional antennas and submarine modernization efforts in the defense sector. The research company said Thursday the cost of modular optronics mast, use of short wave infrared technology and […] More