Barbara Focalplane, Raytheon Vision Systems and Teledyne Scientific & Imaging.


Te use of commercial foundries is significant in that it engaged manufacturers that are not reliant on DOD for their survival and sell cellphone chips and other electronic components as their primary revenue streams. “Te integration of commercial foundries through the HIUTE model was incredibly important to our long-term success,” said Andy Davis of the U.S. Army Manufacturing Technology program, better known as ManTech.


“Te use of trusted entities enabled us to provide critical designs and know-how necessary to establish the production capabilities within the manufacturing community.”


A key feature in how the VISTA program executed horizontal sharing among competitors was the quarterly program review, where all participants and stakeholders reviewed progress and discussed possible solutions to technical issues. Seventeen quar- terly program reviews have been conducted over the past five years, with government stakeholders, trusted entities and indus- try partners sharing key findings in two-day meetings.


DEVELOPING NEW TIES


Dr. Jerry McGinn, left, principal deputy director of the Office of Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, discusses technology capabilities with an attendee of ta VISTA showcase, held April 12-13 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. (Photo by Kay Stephens, CERDEC NVESD)


“Tis sharing was unprecedented,” said Dr. A. Fenner Milton, former NVESD director. “It’s very unusual to see competitors sit side by side in a room and share results with each other. Without these discussions, it would be difficult to have this much prog- ress over such short a time.”


In the VISTA program, which ran from FY11 through FY15, these trusted entities developed a new class of materials for infrared focal plane arrays and digital readout integrated circuits, then transferred their designs and findings to industry. (See


"Te VISTA Advantage" for more information on focal plane arrays.) Commercial foundries such as IQE PLC and Intelligent Epitaxy Technology Inc. used these VISTA-inspired recipes to grow wafers, thin slices of semiconductor material, which are then sent to fabrication houses. Te fabrication houses final- ize the process by converting the wafers into functional focal plane arrays, which are then tested and demonstrated. Fabrica- tion houses participating in VISTA included HRL Laboratories LLC, L-3 Cincinnati Electronics, Lockheed Martin Santa


This model provides the government with opportuni- ties to leverage investments from other sources and reduce costs while increas- ing the self-sufficiency of the industrial base.


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