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Year-End Reflections and Looking Ahead

As we close out another year at the MMEC, I want to take a moment to reflect on what we’ve accomplished together, and more importantly, where we’re headed next.

This year reaffirmed something we’ve known since MMEC’s founding: meaningful progress in microelectronics doesn’t happen in isolation. It happens when industry, academia, government, and innovators work together with urgency, discipline, and shared purpose. Across the MMEC ecosystem, we’ve seen that collaboration translates into real outcomes. From accelerated project execution and stronger teaming to expanded infrastructure access and workforce development momentum.

Over the past year, MMEC continued to mature from a start-up organization into an execution engine. Our physical and technical infrastructure network grew, giving members more pathways to prototype, test, and scale. We strengthened our platforms and services to help members move faster from concept to fabrication to mission impact. Our DESIGN Platform digital tools expanded affordable access to design, tools, IP, and emulation. We launched our CONNECT Platform to enhance collaboration, innovation, and resource integration across diverse ecosystems. SECURE Services is our latest effort to build a culture of security and compliance that our members can access for FSO, CMMC, and training programs. And lastly, through the launch of ScaleBridge Labs and our capital ecosystem, we advanced new approaches to bridging the Valley of Death for early-stage microelectronics companies. It’s been quite a year of excitement and growth.

Equally important, we invested in people. Workforce development remained a core priority as we supported education, training, and experiential learning opportunities that prepare the next generation of microelectronics talent, while also upskilling today’s workforce to meet national security and commercial demands.

None of this progress would be possible without our members. Your willingness to engage, share expertise, lead working groups, pursue projects, and challenge the status quo is what makes MMEC work. I’m also deeply grateful to our partners and stakeholders who continue to place their trust in this consortium to deliver results at speed and scale.

As we look at the year ahead, our focus is clear: execution, impact, and scale. We will continue to align opportunities with capabilities, reduce friction in collaboration, and help our members compete and win in an increasingly complex microelectronics landscape. Scaling our membership, projects, infrastructure and services results in significant capability transition, rapid response to the warfigher and assuring our nation remains the leader in state of the art microelectronics. The work ahead is ambitious but we truly believe we have built a community with a culture that will allow great things to happen.

Thank you for your commitment to MMEC and to strengthening America’s microelectronics ecosystem. I look forward to what we will build together in the year to come.

Thank You for Making the 2025

MMEC Annual Member Meeting a Success!

Dear MMEC Members,

On behalf of the entire MMEC team, thank you for being part of our 2025 Annual Member Meeting. Your engagement, questions, and collaborative spirit made this year’s gathering our most impactful yet. The energy across all sessions truly reflected our shared commitment to strengthening the U.S. microelectronics ecosystem.

A Special Thank You to Our Speakers & Panelists

We couldn’t have done it without the exceptional keynote speakers and panelists who shared their expertise, insight, and real-world experience. Their contributions elevated the conversation, sparked new ideas, and provided valuable direction for where the microelectronics community is headed. We extend our sincere appreciation for the time and knowledge they brought to the MMEC stage.

Meeting Highlights

Here are just a few of the standout moments from this year’s event:

Inspiring Keynotes: Thoughtful perspectives from government, industry, and academic leaders on the future of microelectronics, national security, and domestic manufacturing.

Panel Discussions: Engaging with the leading minds in industry, government and academia to provide insight into the microelectronics ecosystem.

Working Group Discussions: Robust dialogue in our technology-area working groups, with the development of next steps for collaboration and project capture.

ScaleBridge Labs Team Pitches: A dynamic set of early-stage companies took the stage to share breakthrough concepts, dual-use technologies, and commercialization pathways. We are excited about the growing role ScaleBridge Labs will have in accelerating innovation and investment.

Networking & Collaboration: New connections, new teaming opportunities, and follow-on conversations that will continue well beyond the meeting. Thank you to our two networking reception sponsors: JobsOhio https://www.jobsohio.com and The Uhl Agency https://www.uhlagency.com

MMEC Awards

We wanted to highlight some of the outstanding performances of the past year so we introduced the MMEC “M.E.” Awards to promote the excellence of our members in a number of categories. Congratulations to the winners:

Excellence in Execution: WMSDR Project Team – Lockheed Martin, University of Dayton, Intel, Indiana Micro, Purdue University, CapV, & 3DGlass

Rising Star Award: FabuBlox

Warfighter Award: Lockheed Martin Mission & Fire Control

Mission Champion Award: GaN Prototype Challenge Team – Northrop Grumman, CA DREAMS, MMEC

ACE Working Group Award: EO/IR Working Group

ScaleBridge Pitch Session Award: FALCOMM

Internship Award: Kapil Krishna

Looking Ahead to Next Year

We’re already taking the information we have learned though our discussions with you and building on the momentum from this year’s meeting. Next year, you can expect a broader look towards a wider range of opportunities, more member driven content, ways to build stronger connections, and deeper dives into technology areas and mission needs.

Let Us Know What You Think

The MMEC works for the benefit of our members and we want to make sure we are providing you with the opportunities, information, and collaboration you need to be successful. If you would like to provide feedback about the 2025 Annual Meeting we have created a short survey so we can get your input about how next year’s meeting can be even more beneficial.

Lastly, we are providing the slides from the Annual Meeting – due to security and confidentiality concerns, these slides do not include any keynote, panelist, or project slides and just contain the MMEC slides

Thank you again for your continued partnership and for the work you do every day to advance our shared mission. We’re grateful to have you in the MMEC ecosystem and excited about what we’ll accomplish together in the year ahead.

Thank You,

The MMEC Team

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