The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded pure-play foundry GlobalFoundries (GF) with a 10-year contract to supply the government with secured, domestically made semiconductors for aerospace and defense applications.
Under the $3.1 billion contract, the DoD and its contractors will access GF’s semiconductor technologies manufactured on GF’s U.S. fabs. The contract also comes after GF’s Malta, New York, fab was accredited as a Category 1A trusted supplier through the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA), Trusted Access Program Office (TAPO) accreditation where this contract was also awarded from.
This will allow DoD semiconductors to be manufactured on GF’s 12 nm FinFET technologies to be used in DoD systems on land, air, sea and space. It also gives access to GF’s design ecosystem, intellectual property (IP) libraries, early-access to new technologies, prototyping platform and full-scale volume manufacturing capabilities.
The initial award of $17.3 million started in September and over the next 10 years $3.1 billion will be awarded through the DoD and its contractors for semiconductor supply. It is the third sequential 10-year contract between the DoD and GF.
