How does rad-hard testing work? What does “rad-hard” mean? Join in this episode with special guest Dan Marrujo from Trusted Strategic Solutions, who gives us a behind-the-scenes look into the criticality of testing for radiation-hardened technologies and what’s being done to improve these capabilities for the DoD. Stay tuned until the end of the episode for insights on growing trends in the defense tech industry.
Dan is the President of Trusted Strategic Solutions, a consulting firm that provides expertise to industry and government leaders in many technical areas including microelectronics and space technology. Dan is a former Chief Strategy Officer and former Director of the Office of Research and Technology Applications (ORTA) at the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA). He holds a master’s degree in Materials Engineering, a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, and a minor in physics from the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.
Get connected with Dan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-marrujo/
Check out the Micro Journey’s podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/micro-journeys-the-pulse-of-whats-next/id1807413458
Learn more about NSTXL at https://nstxl.org/
Catch up on past episodes here.
Chapters
- (00:00:00) - Radiation Protection in the Future
- (00:00:45) - Top Engineer Richard Savage on His Passion
- (00:03:31) - Post-Bacc MS in Microelectronics at the Pentagon
- (00:07:09) - Radical Hard Technologies
- (00:12:12) - What does Trusted Strategic Solutions do for the Defense Department?
- (00:18:42) - What is the most valuable thing that you provide to your government clients
- (00:21:09) - Microelectronics: An Enabling Technology for
- (00:23:20) - NST XL
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