BOZEMAN — This spring, construction will begin on a new 80,000 square foot facility for local manufacturing company Lattice Materials in Bozeman. WATCH: Bozeman Company Creates 50 Jobs With $18.5M Defense Contract ExpansionBozeman manufacturing company to add 50 jobs with $18.5 million expansion“Believe it or not, Bozeman and Montana in general have kind of emerged as an epicenter for photonics and quantum technologies,” said Travis Wood, President of Lattice Materials. MTN News Lattice Materials President Travis Wood. “In-house, we actually grow silicon and germanium crystals that we then convert into windows, lenses, for a lot of the U.S. legacy defense programs.”MTN News A Lattice Materials product. That’s why Gill and Wood say it is crucial for the community to know about their upcoming expansion, which will bring a new facility and 50 new jobs to Bozeman.