Meet FORTITUDE™: The Single Chip Supercharging Data Speed and System Performance
A universal boost for today’s systems that delivers the speed tomorrow’s networks demand
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Northrop Grumman’s FORTITUDE™ chip boosts connectivity and performance for commercial and defense RF applications, using unique circuitry to accelerate data flow and deliver critical information to end-users with greater speed and reliability.
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FORTITUDE™ triples power and boosts signals by 20x, enabling satellites, radar, GPS, electronic warfare and emerging 6G systems to perform with crystal-clear reliability.
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Today’s systems are overloaded; FORTITUDE™ GaN chip breaks through the noise, delivering precise, high-power signals for noisy, overloaded military and civilian environments.
BALTIMORE, Oct 2, 2026. Designed to solve one of the hardest problems in modern electronics — moving massive amounts of information quickly, cleanly and reliably — Northrop Grumman’s FORTITUDE™ processes vast portions of the electromagnetic spectrum on a single, grain-of-rice–sized gallium nitride chip. The future-ready technology delivers three times more power and 20 times better signal quality, helping satellites, radar, GPS, electronic warfare and future 6G systems stay connected with clearer, more reliable performance.
Previously known as the Super Lattice Castellated Field Effect Transistor, FORTITUDE™ builds on the company’s focused research and development and substantial investment in microelectronics to replace dozens of components, cutting weight, and slashing power consumption while delivering greater value for the end system. Built in the US for both commercial and defense markets, FORTITUDE™ simplifies system architectures and opens new opportunities for faster, more dependable communications across next generation platforms.
