Microelectronics

Designing, developing, and manufacturing big and small solutions for national security.​

A Proven Record

Today’s global security threats require solutions big and small – solutions living within the Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center. For more than 50 years, we have been designing, fabricating, packaging and delivering discriminating microelectronics to the military, aerospace, and commercial markets. 

Efforts to reduce data loss, reduce size weight and power and the ability to provide a broader variety of materials for overall survivability are accomplished because of the technological might of this center.

Microelectronics component in lab.

Magnifying the Microscopic

The Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center enables solutions across the defense industry and beyond, supporting millions of missions using tiny technology.

Microelectronics Solder Sphere Automatic Shear Testing Tool

Electronics with Superpowers

In the defense industry, microelectronics and superconductors have to be more reliable, customizable and secure than their commercial counterparts.

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Forward-thinking technologies, developed at Northrop Grumman ahead of their needed mission, is what sets this business apart.
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Vern Boyle
Sector VP Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center

Driving Towards Mission Success

Our secure facilities produce millions of microchips a year, with the tailored design, fabrication and packaging needed to address the high mix of our nation’s most advanced defense systems and sensors. Northrop Grumman’s Microelectronics Center is defining possible every day. What comes next is immeasurable.
employee working in microelectronics lab

Advanced Technology Lab

ATL offers foundry services in both Silicon and Compound technologies. Our standard products encompass Radiation Hardened Memories, ASIC’s, and Power Transistors.

lab facility for semiconductor wafer post-processing

Micro-Line

Micro-Line offers a suite of back-end wafer post-processing capabilities, including passivation, solder bumping, dicing, advanced inspection and test for defense applications.

three workers in blue lab uniforms working on spacecraft

Space Park

Space Park offers products for E-Band wireless communication; W-Band applications; millimeter-wave imaging; and W-Band communication for military and commercial wireless, high-power amplifier applications.

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We keep out-inventing ourselves. We’re pushing the boundaries of what physics and chemistry allow for our next-generation systems.
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Matt Hicks
Director of the Advanced Technology Lab