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BAE To Get $35 Million In CHIPS Funding To Modernize Nashua Microelectronics Center

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, December 11th, 2023

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BAE To Get $35 Million In CHIPS Funding To Modernize Nashua Microelectronics Center

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The Department of Commerce on Monday said it has selected BAE Systems for $35 million in potential funding to modernize the company’s defense-focused Microelectronics Center (MEC) as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to bolster the U.S. industrial base for advanced computer chips. The 110,000 square-foot MEC in Nashua, N.H. “is one of the only domestic defense-centric six-inch Gallium Arsenide and Gallium Nitride High Electronic Mobility Transistor wafer foundries,” BAE said, noting that the new funds will allow the facility…

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