
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…