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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A photo shows a microchip.

EPROM Microchip

The DOD's microelectronics commons aims to close gaps in America's ability to bring new microelectronics technology to market. Seen here is a microchip inside an erasable-programable, read-only memory chip, dubbed EPROM, built in the 1980s.

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