Mojo Vision has announced $24.4 million in additional funding under an Other Transaction Authority agreement through the Office of the Assistant Secretary of War for Industrial Base Policy (OASW(IBP)). Of the total, $20 million comes from its Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment (IBAS) program and $4.4 million from the U.S. Army's C5ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) organization. It is Mojo's largest government award to date and is intended to strengthen the defense industrial base, boost domestic manufacturing, and advance the company's micro-LED platform through the development of monolithic full-color microdisplays for near-eye augmented reality applications.
The program will develop ultra-bright, monolithic microdisplays using Mojo's proprietary quantum dot color conversion. The displays are designed to improve brightness and reliability while reducing size, weight, and power, giving warfighters more comfortable equipment and better situational awareness. Advances in the underlying micro-LED technology, CMOS integration, and wafer-scale manufacturing are also expected to strengthen the shared platform behind Mojo's display and optical interconnect businesses.
Nikhil Balram, CEO of Mojo Vision, said the award accelerates the company's work to put ultra-bright, full-color displays into the hands of the warfighter and to strengthen America's ability to manufacture them. He explained that Mojo was built on the idea that the same micro-LED technology that changes how people see information can also change how computing systems move data, and that this program strengthens the technology and manufacturing foundation behind both.
Michael Cadenazzi, Assistant Secretary of War for Industrial Base Policy, had previously stressed the importance of a secure domestic supply, noting that microdisplays are crucial for delivering information to the joint warfighter and are integrated into solutions across all domains, including pilot heads-up displays, advanced night vision goggles, weapon optics, and unmanned systems. He said that securing a domestic supply of advanced MicroLED displays is vital for the Department's next-generation defense applications, ensuring both performance and security.
