Fairchild Imaging is ideally and uniquely qualified to develop the Large Format Monolithic CCD Camera. Fairchild Imaging has over 30 years experience in CCD focal plane design and fabrication. In addition, we retain camera engineering and manufacturing capability to support a variety of scientific, industrial and military applications. We currently manufacture the largest commercially available CCDs (8cmX8cm up to 85 million pixels), the largest available thinned CCDs (6cmX6cm), the most advanced scientific cameras (utilizing our very large, thinned CCDs), the most sensitive CMOS imagers that are commercially available, and the most sensitive cameras that use our CMOS imagers. Additionally, Fairchild Imaging has produced several thousand wafer scale imagers for use in sophisticated commercial imaging applications such as medical x-ray imaging (notably mammography and fluoroscopy), x-ray crystallography, astronomy, electron microscopy, reconnaissance and other military applications, space research, synchrotron instrumentation, spectroscopy, and biological (DNA) research. The experience, capability, skill and equipment are sufficient to achieve the goals of this program
