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The Race to Gallium Nitride

The Race to Gallium Nitride

Defense Industry Daily has done a number of recent articles on R&D around Gallium Nitride semiconductors. The Boston Globe places these developments in a competitive context, noting the commercial advantages that various players in the defense industry stand to gain if they can make breakthroughs in this area….

Raytheon Added to Research List for Gallium Nitride Semiconductors

Raytheon Added to Research List for Gallium Nitride Semiconductors

Raytheon Company’s Integrated Defense Systems (Raytheon IDS) of Tewksbury, MA has been awarded a three-year, $26.9 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to optimize and refine the use of Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductors. The contract a potential award value of $59.4 million if all program options are exercised….

TriQuint Wins DARPA Gallium Nitride Research Contract

TriQuint Wins DARPA Gallium Nitride Research Contract

TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. of Hillsboro, OR received a two-phase, multi-year contract worth up to $31.7 million, in order to develop high power wide band amplifiers in gallium nitride. Gallium nitride devices provide the higher power density and efficiency required for high power phased array radar, electronic warfare, and missile seeker and communications systems. The first phase…

Northrop Grumman Receives DARPA Contract to Develop Gallium Nitride Components

Northrop Grumman Receives DARPA Contract to Develop Gallium Nitride Components

Northrop Grumman Corporation has received a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to develop electronic components made from gallium nitride, a next-generation semiconductor material. The three-year, $16.5 million contract for the Wide Band Gap Semiconductors for Radio Frequency Applications initiative is potentially valued at $53.4 million if all program options are exercised. Northrop Grumman began developing this technology in 2002 under a $5.1 million Wide Band Gap Semiconductors Phase 1 contract. Work for the DARPA program will be performed at the Northrop Grumman Space Technology facility in Manhattan Beach, CA and Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems in Baltimore, MD.

Flexible G/ATORs: The USMC’s Multi-Mission AESA Ground Radars

Flexible G/ATORs: The USMC’s Multi-Mission AESA Ground Radars

G/ATOR diorama (click to view full) The US military's long run of unquestioned air superiority has led to shortcuts in mobile land-based air defenses, and the US Marines are no exception. A December 2005 release from Sen. Schumer's office [D-NY] said that: "Current...

Timely Defenders: Keeping Patriots in Shape

Timely Defenders: Keeping Patriots in Shape

DID’s FOCUS Article covering the Patriot anti-air missile system, including all development & contracts during the FY 2007 time frame…