# BAE Systems modernizes Nashua Microelectronics Center with CHIPS Act funding

BAE Systems is investing to modernize its Microelectronics Center in Nashua, New Hampshire, supported by CHIPS Act funding. The project will purchase new manufacturing tools to increase production capacity and speed delivery of semiconductor chips for U.S. Department of Defense programs.

- Type: Investment
- Announced: 2025-08-21
- Where: Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
- Status: announced
- Products: Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) and Gallium Nitride (GaN) HEMT semiconductor chips
- Sectors: [Semiconductors and Industrial Electronics](https://endata.com/sectors/semiconductors-electronics.md)

## Companies

- [BAE Systems](https://endata.com/companies/4538.md)

## Sources

- [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bae-systems-significantly-accelerates-chip-production-for-mission-critical-defense-programs-using-chips-act-funding-302536056.html), 2025-08-21: "BAE Systems' investment to modernize its Nashua, New Hampshire Microelectronics Center (MEC), supported in part by the CHIPS Act, will purchase new, more efficient manufacturing tools to significantly increase production capacity"

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