# AFRL awards BRIDG $7.5M contract for semiconductor digital twin development

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded BRIDG a $7.5 million contract to develop a secure digital twin for semiconductor capability, enabling validation of chip integrity. BRIDG will lead efforts to apply smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 strategies for microelectronics security.

- Type: Contract
- Announced: 2019-11-19
- Where: Kissimmee, Florida, United States
- Value: $7.50M
- Status: completed
- Products: secure digital twin for semiconductor
- Sectors: [Semiconductors and Industrial Electronics](https://endata.com/sectors/semiconductors-electronics.md)

## Companies

- [BRIDG](https://endata.com/companies/43812.md)
- [Air Force Research Laboratory](https://endata.com/companies/16499.md) (customer)

## Sources

- [semi.org](https://www.semi.org/en/news-resources/press/BRIDG-AFRL_contract), 2019-12-09: "Ensuring the trust and assurance integrity of microelectronics is a major challenge and BRIDG is poised to work with our partners to deliver solutions that protect against malicious function insertion, fraudulent products, theft of intellectual property, and reliability failures."

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