Alex Dely – Raytheon Missiles & Defense

The 2022 CHIPS and Science Act has greatly accelerated the expansion of US wafer fab capacity for the manufacturing of very high performance Heterogeneous Photonic Integrated Circuit (HIP) technology microelectronic components and systems with unique mission/life critical national security applications to the 16 DHS designated Critical Infrastructure Sectors, including the Electric Utility Sector. We will present a range of innovative HPIC applications throughout the power system network, including: standard and renewable generating plant, substation energy storage, grid modeling/simulation/optimization using Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, and optimized solar cell and battery systems.