Microelectronics and semiconductors— the tiny components such as transistors, amplifiers, regulators, sensors and switches that make everything from cars to phones to coffee makers and key fobs run.
Microscopic Giants: Northrop Grumman’s Microelectronics Powering American Defense
Explore how Northrop Grumman leads in U.S.-made microelectronics, manufacturing advanced chips to enhance national defense. Learn about innovative processes, supply chain security, and future expansions that empower the American defense industry and economy.
Hardening the Future
In space, radiation is one of the greatest threats to a spacecraft’s microelectronics components, wreaking havoc on the delicate, tiny parts that power the spacecraft. Now, a Northrop Grumman team is testing methods that could revolutionize how future spacecraft semiconductors are protected — or hardened — against radiation.
Gadget Inspectors
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been incorporated into many aspects of manufacturing, and now, a team at Northrop Grumman is exploring how to leverage AI for integrated circuit chip inspection, a critical process that previously has been completed manually.
California DREAMS Partners Kick-off a ‘Generational Opportunity’ to Bolster the U.S. Microelectronics Industry
Government, industry, and academic leaders recently gathered at Northrop Grumman’s Space Park campus to discuss their role in a landmark effort to expand research, development, and production of essential advanced microelectronics technologies in the United States.
Microelectronics Products
Northrop Grumman’s microelectronics foundries maintains a wide range of processes for our customers. We offer several full feature facilities with state-of-the-art design capabilities, multiple processing nodes, electrical testing, environmental and QCI screening and failure analysis.
Microelectronics – Micro-Line
The μ-Line (micro-line) is a wafer post-processing and test facility tailored for defense microelectronics applications.
Revolutionizing Missions
Northrop Grumman’s Space Park microelectronics foundry in California produces specialized microchips that withstand harsh space conditions, ensuring reliability for military satellites. The facility fosters innovation while contributing to the push for onshore microelectronics manufacturing, further supporting national defense and space exploration.
The Quick Chip
1,000 times faster than the chips in your cell phone, microscopic in size and enabling high speed secure communications for DoD missions. This was the ask Bill Deal took on, and it resulted in so much more: a super technology, housed in a tiny microchip, made by the Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center (NGMC), and it’s called the Terahertz (THz) technology.
GOMACTech
Northrop Grumman's Microelectronics Center (NGMC) designs, manufactures, assembles, tests and packages millions of microelectronics annually to support next-generation defense and commercial systems in the United States, ensuring the American supply chain is protected and sustainable to strengthen national defense infrastructure.
Microelectronics Advanced Packaging
Northrop Grumman offers a large defense portfolio for microelectronics technologies, as well as advanced commercial semiconductor solutions to enhance everyday life.
What We Do At The Foundry
Northrop Grumman offers a large defense portfolio for microelectronics technologies, as well as advanced commercial semiconductor solutions to enhance everyday life.
What We Do in Apopka
Northrop Grumman offers a large defense portfolio for microelectronics technologies, as well as advanced commercial semiconductor solutions to enhance everyday life.
Sonoma Photonics Products and Capabilities
Sonoma Photonics is a leading provider of advanced thin film technologies and products for mission critical applications, developing and manufacturing high-precision optical and RF products, materials, and deposition systems to solve our customer’s most challenging problems.
Modernizing Defense Technology
Northrop Grumman’s innovative technologies are at the forefront of mission systems modernization, delivering generational advances in electronic warfare, electro-optical/infrared systems, AESA radars, resilient networking, microelectronics and assured navigation.
Microelectronics: Powering American Defense
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Microelectronics – Advanced Technology Lab
The Advanced Technology Lab designs and fabricates microelectronics that are critical components of the most advanced ground, air, sea and space systems in the world.
Think Tank Toolkit
We ensure America leads the world in military strength and innovation with our microelectronics. Through an end-to-end process – all on U.S. soil – we design, manufacture, assemble and package millions of microelectronics with unparalleled precision, ensuring our supply chain is protected and sustainable to strengthen our nation’s defense infrastructure.
Microelectronics Leadership
We ensure America leads the world in military strength and innovation with our microelectronics. Through an end-to-end process – all on U.S. soil – we design, manufacture, assemble and package millions of microelectronics with unparalleled precision, ensuring our supply chain is protected and sustainable to strengthen our nation’s defense infrastructure.
Faster, Smaller, Greater: Transforming Microelectronics
From the spacecraft that took humankind to the moon to the cellphone in your pocket, Northrop Grumman has always been a trailblazer in microelectronics, the tiny parts that power electronic devices. In foundries on both coasts of the United States, Northrop Grumman engineers, technicians and researchers design and manufacture complex microelectronics components, and the company’s expertise in microelectronics continues to shape the world — as it has for nearly seven decades.
The Passion of a Pioneer
Walking through the halls of Northrop Grumman's Apopka facility, you will be hard pressed to find a space not influenced by Lesley Cheema. Lesley's 30 years of experience in semiconductor engineering has positioned her well as the mentor, innovator and connector she is today.
Microelectronics
Discover how Northrop Grumman's cutting-edge microelectronics power mission-critical systems and ensure America's military strength. Our U.S.-based experts push the boundaries of physics and chemistry to develop next-generation systems, driving innovation and national defense.
The Process for Precision
Discover how Dr. Mindy Liu streamlined semiconductor chip validation at Northrop Grumman with a scalable test process, improving efficiency, accuracy, and collaboration across dozens of programs.
From Mops to Microelectronics
Paul Torres steps on and off the blue sticky floor outside a cleanroom, ready to start his engineering shift at the micro-line in Apopka, Florida. It’s a space where he now works on cutting-edge technology for the Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center, but it’s also where his career at Northrop Grumman began — not long ago, he was installing that same sticky floor as part of the janitorial staff.
Small Components, Big Impact
The microelectronics foundry at Northrop Grumman's our Space Park site in Redondo Beach, California, is unique: it’s focused exclusively on developing microchips that can withstand the harsh conditions of outer space.
