The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working to determine its approach to a new microelectronics manufacturing program that aims to ultimately onshore research and production of advanced microsystems. The effort is tied to the agency’s second iteration of its five-year-old Electronics Resurgence Initiative, called ERI 2.0 -- an undertaking that helped fuel DARPA’s $896 million fiscal year 2023 budget request for microelectronics spending. The early-stage Next-Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing (NGMM) push, a DARPA official told Inside Defense , represents “one...
