The Defense Department yesterday announced more than $200 million in second-year project awards will go toward 26 Microelectronics Commons initiatives that have demonstrated strong potential to speed up and bolster domestic prototyping capabilities in the year since the first 34 project awards were granted. The announcement comes just over two months after Microelectronics Commons leadership told attendees at the program’s annual conference that the initiative was going through its second year of project awards. “So, after year...