Featured Exhibitors Include:
Webster, TX
Booth #: 211
Aegis Aerospace (pronounced ējis) is a leading, woman-owned, commercial space and lunar exploration company and an experienced, well-respected DoD and NASA contractor. Since 1992, Aegis Aerospace has helped the Department of Defense and NASA achieve their missions to defend our country’s security, reach for new heights, and discover the unknown for the benefit of humanity. Since 2015, Aegis Aerospace has been at the forefront of the commercial space services industry and, since 2019, developing lunar systems that help advance human understanding of the lunar surface and how to operate there. Formed in 2021 through the merger of Alpha Space and MEI Technologies, Aegis Aerospace offers innovative yet practical solutions in the areas of commercial space services, flight and ground system development and operations, systems engineering, and integration (SE&I), and related spaceflight products and defense support services.
Huntsville, AL
Booth #: 313
AZ Technology manufactures and applies thermal control coatings; manufactures scientific instruments that measure optical properties of materials as well as optical properties testing.
Bally, PA
Booth #: 602
BRM manufactures engineered woven and braided preforms for structural and thermal applications. Manufactured products include 3D woven joints, polar and contour woven fabrics, Thermal Protection Sytems and braided sleeves.
Spencer, MA
Booth #: 705
At Blueshift, we are Thermal Material Specialists. Our core technology includes our AeroZero, and AeroZero Thermal Protection Systems used to protect rockets, missiles, and other aerospace & defense applications, commonly for cork replacements. Our TPS are often used to protect launch vehicles upon ascent & re-entry, and leading-edge thermal protection.
Oldsmar, FL
Booth #: 113
BryCoat is a coating service that applies metallurgical coatings to improve performance of precision machinery components using PVD, Thermal Spray and CVD coating application processes. BryCoat provides thin-film, vacuum-deposited coatings of inert ultra-hard materials such as titanium nitride, titanium carbide and chrome nitride applied by PVD or CVD processes; as well as thicker coatings of carbides, ceramics and metal alloy materials applied by Thermal Spray process; and ultra-thin, ultra-low-friction coatings of WS2 dry film lubricant.
Cleveland, OH
Booth #: 213
CermeTech LLC is an internationally recognized team of polymer chemists, processing specialists, and business managers with the singular goal of becoming the leading supplier of high performance preceramic polymers in North America. Our focus is on the domestic supply of polycarbosilane preceramic polymers for next generation military applications, and hybrid polysilazane based coatings for targeted commercial applications in the Oil and Gas, Marine, Power, Electronics, and Industrial Maintenance sectors.The management team consists of trained and proven professionals specializing in business operation and program management.CermeTech is located in Cleveland Ohio.
Huntsville, AL
Booth #: 111
Since its inception in 1987, CFD Research has delivered innovative technology solutions within the Aerospace & Defense, Biomedical & Life Sciences, Intelligence & Sensing, and Energy & Materials industries. CFD Research has earned multiple national awards for successful application and commercialization of innovative component/system technology prototypes, multi-physics simulation software, multi-disciplinary analyses, and expert support services. Based in Huntsville, Alabama where laboratory facilities and headquarters are located, CFD Research also has office and laboratory facilities in Dayton, Ohio, prototyping test and evaluation facilities in Hollywood, Alabama, and office facilities in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. CFD Research is an ISO9001:AS9100D registered company and is appraised at CMMI Level II for Services. CFD Research is a 100% ESOP (employee-owned company) recognized in Inc. Magazine’s Inc5000 as a top growing company for four of last five years. Learn more at www.cfd-research.com
Panama City, FL
Booth #: 502
Greetings! Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with integrated Configuration Management (CM) is essential. CMPRO has served Aerospace, DoD, and Federal Government sectors for over 30 years. PLM is a business necessity, NOT an IT system! Stop by our booth #502... Get some CMPRO!
Wayland, MI
Booth #: 708
Digitrace produces and delivers precision products from the size of a pen to the size of a bus, and does so in quantities from 1 off to medium volumes. Digitrace as an organization is 100% committed to providing the highest quality of parts and products at a competitive price. Our greatest asset used to produce these products is our highly technical and skilled workforce of US Citizens who take their role in protecting our American freedom SERIOUSLY!! Come see how we at Digitrace can help your organization with your manufacturing needs.
Hudson, NH
Booth #: 301
FLIR cameras have proven their value in critical government and commercial test environments for decades. Trusted by defense, university, and commercial organizations worldwide, Teledyne FLIR continues to build thermal imaging cameras with greater accuracy, faster speeds, and improved resolution, as well as software applications that get you to first measurements faster than ever before.
Booth #: 602
Saratoga Springs, NY
Booth #: 408
Free Form Fibers is continuing the development and commercialization of extreme high performance ceramic fibers and related products, based upon the use of Laser Chemical Vapor Deposition technology to achieve stoichiometric purity. Products include those based on Silicon Carbide (SiC), Silicon Nitride (Si3N4), and carbides, borides, and nitrides of materials including transition metal or Group IV ultra-high temperature compositions.
Saegertown, PA
Booth #: 614
Greenleaf has been in the advanced materials business for more than 77 years.. We are traditionally known for our ceramic and carbide metal cutting inserts and tooling. However, we also make technical ceramic parts for severe service environments and unusual applications. We make ceramic components that work where exotic metals, carbides and traditional ceramics do not perform well. We make one piece prototypes to 100,000’s of pieces. We can even develop ceramic compositions to meet your specific requirements. Our two base structural ceramic compositions are composite silicon carbide whisker reinforced alumina’s (WG) and phase toughened silicon nitride (XSYTIN-1). Our ceramics have friction rates approaching that of Teflon, are amazingly strong, tougher and more impact resistant than zirconia, more wear resistant than SiC, can take temperature extremes and arecorrosion resistant.
Birmingham, AL
Booth #: 703
A worldwide leader with decades of experience in composite and monolithic materials testing, Kratos SRE welcomes the opportunity to team with your organization. We pride ourselves in providing design data that enables decisions requiring the highest level of scrutiny and are excited about teaming to advance all levels of materials R&D. Leveraging decades of material test experience, Kratos SRE offers a complete materials evaluation portfolio from material characterization to component testing to aerothermal ground testing to flight testing using sounding rockets. Our technical expertise and test capabilities cover a broad range of application temperatures to provide constitutive properties ranging from -230 °C (-450 °F) to as high as 3300 °C (6000 °F). Kratos SRE also offers unique high temperature instrumentation used in ground and flight testing, flight component hardware machining, and integration expertise for airborne EO/IR ISR sensors.
Wayne, PA
Booth #: 509
Materials Research & Design (MR&D) is a small business that provides research and design services to the aerospace and ultra-high materials communities. Typical programs at MR&D focus on the simultaneous design of material and structure to optimize component cost, weight, or thermal- structural performance. Additional areas of interest focus upon research into the behavior and processing of advanced composite materials as well as the development of micromechanical models to analyze and understand observed properties. The analytical approach employed by MR&D is based upon a practical understanding of engineering issues founded upon a strong background of theoretical mechanics. www.m-r-d.com
Allenstown, NH
Booth #: 501
MRF creates High Temperature vacuum and controlled atmosphere furnaces. We have served the production and R&D community with excellence since 1990. The MRF team focuses upon applications such as: sintering, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), hot pressing, pyrolysis, physical vapor deposition (PVT), crystal growth, brazing, annealing and arc melting. System temperatures range from 500 C to 3500 C. Resistance, induction, and arc are utilized for precision heating. Our systems range in usable process volumes of 35 ft3 (1 m3 ) to a few in3 (cm3). Specialties include High Temperature Furnaces, Vacuum Furnaces, Production Furnaces, Laboratory Furnaces, and Arc Melting Furnaces.
Auburn University, AL
Booth #: 309
The National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence (NCAME) was founded in 2017 through a collaboration between Auburn University (AU) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) leveraged by a signed AU/NASA Space Act Agreement. The Center is also a founding partner of the ASTM Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE). NCAME strives to be a transitioning mechanism from fundamental to applied research aligned with the need of industry. The Center also aims to lead and foster effective collaborations amongst industry, government, academia, non-profit organizations, and ASTM committees for ensuring a coordinated, global effort toward rapidly closing standards and workforce development gaps in additive manufacturing.
Falls Church, VA
Booth #: 104
Northrop Grumman is a leading global aerospace and defense technology company. Our pioneering solutions equip our customers with the capabilities they need to connect and protect the world, and push the boundaries of human exploration across the universe. Driven by a shared purpose to solve our customers’ toughest problems, our employees define possible every day.
Newton, KS
Booth #: 609
Park Aerospace Corp. develops and manufactures solution and hot-melt advanced composite materials used to produce composite structures for the global aerospace markets. Park also designs and fabricates composite parts, structures and assemblies and low volume tooling for the aerospace industry.
Andover, MA
Booth #: 110
Physical Sciences Inc. is located in Wilmington , MA and manufactures composite materials for extreme environments. Our products include continuous fiber reinforced silicon carbide matrix materials, refractory matrix materials and castable ceramic composites. Additional services provided by PSI include fabric coating using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and preform densification using chemical vapor infiltration (CVI).
Franklin, MA
Booth #: 505
Molybdenum, tungsten, tungsten heavy alloys, tantalum, and their alloys are important materials for the aerospace and defense industry. The key reasons for this are their special material properties: their excellent high-temperature strength, density, and tensile strength, their good mechanical machinability and radiation shielding effect. In our ISO 9001 and AS/EN 9100-certified production facilities we manufacture penetrators, fragments, jet vanes, nozzles, shape charge liners, precision balancing weights, anti-vibration weights, X-ray shields, leading edges, and satellite propulsion components amongst others.
Huntsville, AL
Booth #: 303
Plasma Processes, LLC was founded in 1993 and is an AS9100D/ISO9001 certified non-traditional defense contractor. We specialize in developing, manufacturing, and coating engineered materials and their applications for extreme conditions. We offer various manufacturing and coating processes, each with unique characteristics for specific applications. Our core competencies include a complete family of thermal spray processes (air plasma, inert plasma, shroudded, plasma spray, vacuum plasma spray, high-pressure cold spray, HVOF, wire-arc, etc.), EL-Form® Molten Salt Electrodeposition, Laser-Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) additive manufacturing, arc-jet testing, and powder processing such as Powder Alloying and Spheroidization (PAS). We offer services through testing, consulting, design, analysis, quality, program management, and an in-house metallurgical laboratory for material analysis and characterization. We also provide risk reduction testing through arc-jet testing using our Plasma booths that can mimic the trajectories of vehicles and help further component development and validation. Our coatings include both environmental and thermal barrier coatings (EBC/TBC), along with protection systems for radiation, EMI, oxidation, ablation, and other applications. Plasma also provides advanced mono-propellant thrusters and propulsion systems under the Rubicon Space Systems division. We have expanded our additive manufacturing capabilities, and we produce many propulsion and other system components that go on other customers’ platforms. These products consist of pintles, throats (non-eroding), nozzles, thrust chambers/gas generators, and more. In 2024 we expanded into our second facility and made expansions in capability and equipment related to machining, post-processing, testing, and more.
Louisville, KY
Booth #: 601
Saint-Gobain Advanced Ceramic Composites, formerly known as Saint-Gobain Quartz, is a leading supplier of high-quality advanced ceramic composite materials and products. With a legacy of innovation for more than 100 years, we are redefining the possibilities in material science. Our expertise spans from aeronautics to industrial applications, providing solutions that meet the most demanding requirements.
Spring Grove, IL
Booth #: 101
Scot Forge is a 130+ year-old, 100% employee-owned company that manufactures custom open die and rolled ring forgings. At Scot Forge, we help our customers succeed in their most critical initiatives with forged solutions for rocket, missile and spacecraft applications. From the wheels of NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover to critical components on the Common Hypersonic Glide Body to propulsion systems on the largest rockets in the country, Scot Forge creates the precision forged metal parts used in demanding applications both on and off this planet we call home.
San Antonio, TX
Booth #: 605
Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®) is a premier independent, nonprofit research and development organization. We offer multidisciplinary services leveraging advanced science and applied technologies. Since 1947, we have provided solutions for some of the world’s most challenging scientific and engineering problems.
Santa Maria, CA
Booth #: 409
Space Information Laboratories (SIL)- http://www.spaceinformationlabs.com/, is a California small business that develops, manufactures, and Space environmentally qualified flight unit products for launch vehicles, missiles, hypersonic vehicles, reentry vehicles, aircraft, and UAS. These products include Li-Ion Intelli-Pack® avionics, telemetry and flight termination batteries, VBITS Autonomous Flight Termination Unit (AFTU), Intelli-Avionics®, and VBIRS Satellite Comm high date rate flight units.SIL has a complete in-house environmental flight unit test capability including thermal cycle, vacuum, random and sine vibration, and shock. SIL accomplishes this work at the highest quality with an independently certified AS9100D Quality Management System (https://www.spaceinformationlabs.com/products/certifications/) by Intertek for design, manufacturing and test of flight units.
Kernersville, NC
Booth #: 600
Tex-Tech is a premier designer and manufacturer of specialty textiles, composite heat shields, and Q Shield thermal protection systems. Our skilled team uses a collaborative approach to develop customized solutions for our customers' specific mission requirements. We leverage our diverse capabilities to create novel products to meet the stringent thermal demands of extreme environment applications.
Anaheim, CA
Booth #: 200
Textile products Inc & Fabric Development Inc develops and manufactures high performance textile structures for a variety of composite applications. These applications include ceramic matrix, carbon and polymer resin systems. Fabric forms include 2D, 3D multilayer and custom designs to meet unique customer requirements. reinforcements include ceramic, carbon, quartz and aramid yarns.
Belmont, NC
Booth #: 702
Textum is an advanced textile and composite manufacturing company. We support product development from engineering design to full-rate production. Our specialty combines multi-dimensional reinforcement technologies with efficient composite processing techniques for demanding applications.
Pottstown, PA
Booth #: 102
Titan International, Inc. is a specialty metals manufacturer and Strategic Sourcing Partner. Titan is known for its commitment to innovation, quality, and customer-centric solutions. Titan International serves diverse industries, including aerospace, defense, automotive, and electronics, with a focus on delivering high-performance materials tailored to meet complex production needs.
Morgan Hill, CA
Booth #: 700
Toray is the recognized leader in carbon fiber, thermoset, and thermoplastic prepreg solutions for diverse applications. Toray utilizes a vertically integrated supply chain and has the largest capacity of any carbon fiber or prepreg manufacturer in North America, with a global team of application engineers specializing in aerospace and defense applications to support programs from custom material selection to development and qualification process. For over five decades, Toray’s advanced composite materials have been integral to critical military and missile defense applications to improve payload carrying capacity and increase range. Additionally, our technology has consistently met stringent requirements of defense programs where high strength, high impact damage resistance, heat resistance, or electromagnetic transparency are needed.
Pacoima, CA
Booth #: 608
Founded in 1970, Ultramet engineers and manufactures refractory metals, platinum group metals, and ceramics for extreme environment applications that meet the propulsion and thermal management needs of the aerospace, defense, and energy industries. Among the array of flight-qualified hardware produced at its ISO 9001:2015-certified facility are hypersonic vehicle components, satellite thrust chambers, and the foam core of the heat shield on NASA’s Parker Solar Probe.
Clearfield, UT
Booth #: 202
The Miller Advanced Research and Solutions (MARS) Center is a new center stood up to support advanced manufacturing of high temperature composites. We have next generation manufacturing equipment for producing test articles to demonstrate new materials and processes for thermal protection systems, ceramic matrix composites, and carbon/carbon composites. We also have extensive test facilities for characterizing ablation, thermal, and mechanical properties. For non-destructive evaluation we have robotic X-ray CT and laser UT for characterization of composite quality and defects at very large scale (>4-feet).
Florida, NY
Booth #: 508
ZIRCAR Ceramics, Inc. is a producer of ceramic fiber based low-mass high temperature thermal and electrical insulation products. Compositions exhibit useful dielectric properties for use at temperatures as high as 1825C. Includes rigid boards and cylinders, flexible blankets, papers, textiles, coatings and adhesives with a special emphasis on precision custom CNC machined components.
