A machining head working the inside of a large ribbed metal barrel

Accepting work

Build to print, inspect and qualify under thermal vacuum. Optics, optomechanics and electronics for defense and space programs.

Fabrication, Origination, Refinement, Grade Engineering

FORGE

How a job runs

Every job moves through the same five operations, in order, under one roof.

  1. Review

    Drawing, material, tolerance, quantity and export control, reviewed before we quote. Controlled data moves only through a channel agreed with you.

    An optical bench assembly on its stand in a cleanroom
  2. Build

    Optical and mechanical parts and assemblies made to your drawing: lenses, windows, domes and mirrors, and the mounts, cells and housings that hold them.

    Technicians in cleanroom dress fitting hardware to a mirror mount
  3. Inspect

    Dimensional and optical inspection against the acceptance criteria you set, before the part moves on.

    An engineer at an optical test frame
  4. Qualify

    Thermal vacuum and thermal cycling, run to the environment the article will see in service.

    Looking down into a thermal vacuum chamber as hardware is lowered in
  5. Ship

    Packed, labeled and shipped to your requirements, with the inspection and test results you asked for.

    Technicians guiding flight hardware on a crane hook

Built to print

  • Seeker optics

    Lenses, windows and domes built to your drawing.

  • Optomechanical assemblies

    Mounts, cells and housings that hold alignment through launch.

  • Electro-optical subassemblies

    Optics, detectors and their mechanics delivered as one unit.

  • Power electronics

    Conversion and distribution boards for flight hardware.

  • Telescope optics

    Mirrors and lenses for infrared and visible payloads.

  • Laser terminal optics

    Front-end optics and mounts for optical crosslink terminals.

  • Precision structures

    Benches and brackets machined to flight tolerances.

  • Beam director optics

    Mirrors, mounts and windows built to your drawing.

  • EO/IR sensor optics

    Lenses and assemblies for counter-drone tracking sensors.

Build-out targets

Targets, not demonstrated results

Build-out targets. Targets, not demonstrated results.
PressureAmbient to 1×10⁻⁶ Torr under thermal vacuum
Temperature−180 °C to +150 °C at the test article
WavefrontInterferometric wavefront error to λ/20 RMS at 632.8 nm

In development

Metal additive manufacturing held to flight standards: parameters controlled, every build inspected, every part traceable to the build that made it.

Start a quote

Pick the operation you need. The quote form opens ready for it.