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NIST in Your State

NIST in North Carolina

NIST ensures that the U.S. economy runs on fair transactions, that our infrastructure is built with quality construction materials, that our manufacturers can innovate and compete internationally, and that we have access to reliable products at home. We provide critical measurements and standards, including nearly 600 calibration services and more than 1,100 standard reference materials, that make Americans safer and healthier and help our companies innovate.

Below you will see a small snippet of what NIST is doing in North Carolina. More information about how NIST is supporting key sectors in North Carolina will be added to this page in the future.

CHIPS Funding

MACOM (North Carolina)

Proposed Award Amount
up to $70 million in proposed funding
CHIPS Organization
CHIPS Program Office
The proposed CHIPS investment would increase the production of 100mm Gallium Nitride (GaN) and Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) semiconductor fabrication and introduce the production of 150mm GaN.

Semiconductor Research Corporation Manufacturing Consortium Corporation (SRC)

Award Amount
$285 million in direct funding
CHIPS Organization
CHIPS Manufacturing USA Program
The purpose of this award is to establish and operate a Manufacturing USA institute, known as SMART USA, focused on efforts to develop, validate, and use digital twins to improve domestic semiconductor design, manufacturing, advanced packaging, assembly, and test processing.

Wolfspeed (North Carolina)

Proposed Award Amount
up to $750 million in proposed funding (split across Siler City, NC and Marcy, NY)
CHIPS Organization
CHIPS Program Office
The proposed funding would support the construction of a new silicon carbide wafer manufacturing facility in Siler City, North Carolina, helping to secure a reliable domestic supply of the semiconductors that will underpin the future energy economy and AI boom.

MEP Success Stories

Carver Machine Works Realizes Multiple Rewards from a Commitment to Quality

Reported Year
2024
Lindsey Crisp, President and CEO of CMW Global, said, “The rigors required by the defense industry have helped us be a better company for all our customers.” The defense critical projects require the company to meet quality certifications from the National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program (NADCAP), Non-Destructive Testing

First Flight Venture’s Hangar6 Helps Onda Vision Technologies Turn Ideas into Products

Reported Year
2024
Onda Vision needed a place for initial testing and proofs of concept to be considered for the USDA Hydration Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant, and found that through the North Carolina Defense Manufacturing Community Support Program (DMCSP), which provided a grant that supported his participation in the Propeller pre-accelerator

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