The Defense Department will award the inaugural $269 million in project funds for its Microelectronics Commons programs to 33 initiatives across 28 states through its eight regional hubs this week, Arati Prabhakar, White House office of science and technology policy director, said today. The announcement comes just under a year after the initiative awarded $238 million to the eight regional Microelectronics Commons Hubs and the accompanying hub infrastructure that “enabled” the announcement, according to Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for...