Federal award (DEFINITIVE CONTRACT, fiscal year 2022)
Recipient: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
Awarding agency: Department of Defense / Defense Contract Management Agency
Funding agency: Department of Defense / Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Period of performance: 2009-09-14 to 2014-03-31
Current total value of award: $17716442
Description: ON THE DARPA NEXT PROGRAM, THE NORTHROP GRUMMAN AEROSPACE SYSTEMS (NGAS) TEAM SHALL DEVELOP DEVICE AND INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGIES NECESSARY TO REALIZE ENHANCEMENT AND DEPLETION MODE NITRIDE TRANSISTORS THAT SIMULTANEOUSLY PROVIDE EXTREMELY HIGH-SPEED AND HIGH-VOLTAGE OPERATION IN A PROCESS CONSISTENT WITH LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION IN CIRCUITS OF 1000 OR MORE TRANSISTORS. ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THIS GOAL SHALL BE VALIDATED THROUGH THE DEMONSTRATION OF SPECIFIC PROGRAM PROCESS CONTROL MONITOR (PCM) TEST CIRCUITS.