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<\/a><\/p>\nBrig. Gen. (Res.) Dr. Daniel Gold, Head of DDR&D\u00a0(MAFAT)\u00a0at the Ministry of Defense, said:\u00a0\u201cIntegrated photonics opens new possibilities for developing advanced, high-performance systems across a wide range of applications. This collaboration is designed to strengthen Israel\u2019s technological capabilities in the field, expand the existing knowledge base and infrastructure, and establish a national capability that will serve the needs of research, industry, and defense for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
The call for proposals is intended for industrial corporations or groups of companies and includes scientific, technological, managerial, and business considerations. Applicants will be required, among other things, to present a technology plan, a business plan, a collaboration framework, a sustainable operating model, and a plan for making the infrastructure accessible to a variety of users in both industry and academia.<\/p>\n
The selected infrastructure will be required to meet high industrial standards, including rapid turnaround times, regular run frequencies, service availability, and support for the integration of various materials and devices. The establishment period may not exceed 18 months, and within 12 months of approval, the infrastructure will be required to begin providing some\u00a0partial\u00a0R&D services even before full completion.<\/p>\n
The initiative will be implemented through the Israel Innovation Authority\u2019s R&D infrastructure fund. The selected infrastructure will provide a comprehensive suite of services, including design, simulation, prototype development, characterization, testing, packaging, and support for transition to volume manufacturing in Israel or abroad. The infrastructure will receive an establishment, deployment, and accessibility grant covering 55% or 66% of the approved budget for a period of three years. At the end of this period, the infrastructure will operate as a for-profit R&D services company.<\/p>\n
The initiative is intended to address one of the central\u00a0main\u00a0challenges facing Israel\u2019s deep-tech industry: the gap between advanced research and design capabilities and limited access to manufacturing, integration, testing, and validation infrastructure in the later stages of development. The underlying assumption is that an accessible national infrastructure in this field will enable startups, growth-stage companies, industrial corporations, and research institutions to shorten development cycles, reduce technological risks, and accelerate the transition from proof of concept to commercially viable products.<\/p>\n
Integrated photonics is a technology that enables the integration of various optical components, including lasers, waveguides, modulators, and detectors, onto a single chip. This integration enables the development of fast, compact, energy-efficient, and reliable systems with broad application potential in advanced communications, data centers, sensing, information processing, defense systems, and manufacturing equipment for the semiconductor industry.<\/p>\n
This initiative represents an important step in strengthening Israel\u2019s innovation infrastructure and reinforcing its competitive advantage in knowledge-intensive and infrastructure-intensive fields. In this context, open and accessible R&D infrastructures for industry and academia serve as a critical tool for accelerating innovation, reducing\u00a0entry\u00a0barriers to entry, and expanding local knowledge and capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Insider Brief Israel\u2019s Innovation Authority and the Ministry of Defense\u2019s DDR&D have launched a new initiative worth up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-492520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}