Northrop Grumman solves the toughest problems in space, aeronautics, defense and cyberspace to meet the ever-evolving needs of our customers worldwide. Our 90,000 employees define possible every day using science, technology and engineering to create and deliver advanced systems, products and services.
Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners, defense, space and security systems, and service provider of aftermarket support. As America's biggest manufacturing exporter, the company supports airlines and U.S. and allied government customers in more than 150 countries. Boeing products and tailored services include commercial and military aircraft, satellites, weapons, electronic and defense systems, launch systems, advanced information and communication systems, and performance-based logistics and training. http://www.boeing.com/
Aerojet Rocketdyne is an innovative company delivering solutions that create value for its customers in the aerospace and defense markets. The company is a world-recognized aerospace and defense leader that provides propulsion, power, and energetics to the space, missile defense and strategic systems, tactical systems and armaments areas, in support of domestic and international markets. Additional information about Aerojet Rocketdyne can be viewed at our website at www.Rocket.com.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin Corporation is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 114,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. advanced technology systems, products and services.
Dynetics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, provides responsive, cost-effective engineering, scientific, IT solutions to the national security, cybersecurity, space, and critical infrastructure sectors. Our portfolio features highly specialized technical services and a range of software and hardware products, including components, subsystems, and complex end-to-end systems. The company of more than 2,500 employees is based in Huntsville, Ala., and has offices throughout the U.S. For more information, visit www.dynetics.com.
Spirit AeroSystems is one of the world’s largest non-OEM designers and manufacturers of aerostructures for commercial and defense aircraft. Spirit AeroSystems applies research and emerging technologies in designing, fabricating, assembling, and integrating components and structures for premier commercial and defense aerospace programs. Since 2005, Spirit has strategically acquired operations of other leading aerospace companies, expanding company manufacturing and engineering operations globally. To expand hypersonic capabilities in the defense market, Spirit purchased Fiber Materials Inc. in January 2020. By combining FMI’s unique capabilities and industry leading 3D woven carbon-carbon high-temperature materials with Spirit’s expertise in industrializing next-generation aerostructures, the partnership creates a critical capability to industrialize state-of the-art defense technologies. https://www.spiritaero.com/programs/defense/hypersonic/
Materials Research & Design (MR&D) is a small business that provides research and design services to the aerospace materials community. Typical programs at MR&D focus on the simultaneous design of material and structure to optimize component cost, weight, or structural/thermal performance. Additional areas of expertise focus upon research into the behavior of composite materials and 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.
Powered by endlessly curious people with an unwavering mission focus, Ball Aerospace pioneers discoveries that enable our customers to perform beyond expectation and protect what matters most. We create innovative space solutions, enable more accurate weather forecasts, drive insightful observations of our planet, deliver actionable data and intelligence, and ensure those who defend our freedom go forward bravely and return home safely. Go Beyond with Ball.® www.ball.com/aerospace
Kratos Space & Missile Defense Systems is an industry leader in responsive and affordable space launch vehicles, services and components for the U.S. Government and its allies, specializing in ballistic missile defense targets, re-entry system evaluators, hypersonic experimentation, and atmospheric science and research. Boasting a team of the most highly trained and experienced launch vehicle engineers and technicians in the industry, Kratos supports customer launches all over the world. With a typical cycle time of six to nine months from requirement to launch and over 100 successful launches during the past two decades, Kratos is Ready for What’s Next.
From Launchpad to Landing: Next Generation Materials for Mars and Beyond For more than 60 years, Momentive has been part of space exploration efforts as well as national defense. From the window seals on the Apollo capsules, to the silicone in the boots of the first astronauts to walk on the moon, Momentive is proud to have helped enable every US manned space flight since. Momentive continues to deliver the innovative low outgassing, thermally insulating, extreme thermal heat transfer and protection for electronics and extreme vibration, environmental and UV resistant RTV silicones that help today’s pioneers reach even greater heights, as well as developing delivery systems and assembly methods can save resources and time.
ReLogic Research is a certified small business whose capabilities include metrology, reverse engineering, manufacturing technology, aircraft weight savings, data system support, hypersonic materials testing, and test facility design. Complementing its core‐competencies, ReLogic is committed to investing resources in technology development of modeling and simulation, and design of advanced materials and structures. As an agile small business, ReLogic provides affordable and on‐time solutions in applied research, product development, and fabrication at the intersection of next‐gen materials and advanced methods.
Southern Research is the leader in specialized materials characterization and comprehensive engineering and development services to the aerospace, defense, energy, and environmental sectors. SR provides advanced research and development services for materials in extreme physical and thermal environments, which include thermo-mechanical modeling, CFD, laboratory testing, and ground testing from as low as -250 °C (-450 °F) to as high as 3300 °C (6000 °F). The primary materials technical focus is to supply innovative modeling, materials testing, and characterization solutions to aerospace, defense, and governmental programs by leveraging Southern Research’s state-of-the-art capabilities with its clients’ goals. Southern Research also offers comprehensive systems engineering development and integration expertise for airborne EO/IR ISR sensors and directed energy applications.
Materials Sciences LLC (MSC) is a small business specializing in design, analysis, manufacturing and testing of advanced materials and structures, with focus on composite materials. MSC is considered a nontraditional defense contractor and is headquartered in a 25,000 ft2 combined engineering, laboratory, and prototyping facility in Horsham, PA. This facility is complemented by a 45,000 ft2 advanced textile/composite manufacturing facility located in Greenville, SC, and a 6,000 ft2 engineering facility in Huntsville, AL. MSC's portfolio includes patented advanced materials used by the US DoD and commercial sectors.
Scot Forge is a 127 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. www.scotforge.com
Founded in 1970, Ultramet engineers and manufactures refractory metals, platinum group metals, and ceramics for extreme environments in the aerospace, biomedical, and defense industries. Among the flight-qualified hardware produced at Ultramet’s ISO 9001:2015-certified facility is the foam core of the heat shield on NASA’s Parker Solar Probe—in space now, coolly orbiting the Sun since its launch in 2018.
