Industry Partnerships

Our faculty and students conduct world-class research resulting in new scientific discoveries and groundbreaking technologies that create commercial opportunities for Colorado's aerospace community.

Aerospace

Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin Space Systems

Lockheed Martin’s Space Systems Company designs, develops, tests, manufactures and operates a full spectrum of advanced systems for national security, civil and commercial customers—including human space flight systems, a full range of satellites and instruments, space observatories and interplanetary spacecraft and more.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies

Ball Aerospace supports critical missions for national agencies such as the Department of Defense, NASA, NOAA and other U.S. government and commercial entities. The company develops and manufactures spacecraft, advanced instruments and sensors, components, data exploitation systems and RF solutions for strategic, tactical and scientific applications.

Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman is a prominent force in the aerospace and defense industry across the nation. Recently, Northrop Grumman has begun cultivating ties with ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder, serving as a Senior Design Project sponsor for Aerospace Engineering students and more. The company specializes in autonomous systems, C4ISR systems, logistics and modernization solutions and more.

Sierra Space

Sierra Space

Sierra Space is a leading commercial space company with more than 30 years and 500 missions of space flight heritage. Sierra Space is enabling the future of space transportation with Dream Chaser®, the world’s only winged commercial spaceplane. The company is also building an array of in-space destinations for low Earth orbit (LEO) commercialization including the LIFEâ„¢ (Large Flexible Integrated Environment) habitat at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a three-story commercial habitation and science platform designed for LEO.

Collaborations with Sierra Space

Oakman Aerospace

Oakman Aerospace

Oakman Aerospace, Inc. is a private, woman veteran-owned small business focused on total end-to-end space systems engineering providing: rapid and responsive space system architectures, modular spacecraft/satellite design & development, mission/payload and data distribution services, and specialized RF phenomenology, products and services.

Collaborations with Oakman Aerospace

Harris Corporation

Harris Corporation

Harris Corporation, a technology company that supports government and commercial customers in more than 100 countries, has approximately $6 billion in annual revenue. The company is organized into three business segments: Communication Systems, Space and Intelligence Systems and Electronic Systems.

Collaborations with Harris Corporation