Aerospace and defense components manufacturer for extreme-environment applications
TA Aerospace manufactures clamping, insulation, and elastomer components for aerospace and defense OEMs and suppliers. The tech stack is heavily weighted toward design (CATIA, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Mastercam) and ERP systems, with infrastructure modernization underway (hybrid design, PKI, disaster recovery) — suggesting a manufacturing business scaling operational maturity. Current hiring is balanced across engineering, sales, and manufacturing with accelerating velocity, alongside active projects in market entry, costing modernization, and production automation.
TA Aerospace, founded in 1942 and publicly traded, is a supplier of high-performance clamping, insulation, and elastomer solutions for aerospace and defense. The company serves OEMs, MROs (maintenance, repair, and overhaul), and Tier 1 suppliers. Based in Valencia, California, with 51–200 employees, the business combines custom-engineered components with standard product lines. Current operational focus areas include manufacturing process compliance, on-time on-budget delivery, labor efficiency, and entry into new markets. The organization is actively modernizing costing approaches and implementing automation capital projects.
TA Aerospace uses CATIA, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, and Mastercam for design and manufacturing workflows, alongside Microsoft Office and Power BI for documentation and analytics.
Active projects include market expansion, automation and capital equipment introduction, manufacturing process compliance, hybrid infrastructure modernization, PKI management, and tooling and fixture design. Pain points center on costing modernization, eliminating tribal knowledge, and CMMC Level 2 compliance.
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