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FORGEDefense-Grade Manufacturing & TestNEXUSAI Operations & Cislunar Space Domain AwarenessHERMESDynamic Space OperationsWIRESResilient PNT & CommunicationsATLASPrecision Lunar Logistics
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Pillar 01 · FORGE

FORGE

Defense-Grade Manufacturing & Test

FORGE is where the company's revenue starts: defense-grade manufacturing and test on the ground in Colorado. Precision optics, vacuum EO/IR qualification, and COTS-to-flight cycles under one roof, with the documentation discipline federal customers audit against.

Lead pillar. First revenue: ground operations from Colorado, 2027.

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The problem

Defense programs wait longest for the smallest hardware.

Precision optics and qualified components sit on the critical path of programs a thousand times their size. The suppliers who make them are few, backlogged, and rarely set up for the test and documentation burden defense customers carry. FORGE exists to be the supplier we could not find: precision hardware, qualified in-house, delivered with the paperwork already right.

Precision Optics

Retroreflectors and laser retroreflector arrays (LRAs): settled physics, unforgiving tolerances. Optical design, assembly support, metrology, and acceptance documentation for hardware that has to perform exactly as modeled.

Vacuum EO/IR Qualification

Thermal-vacuum test of electro-optical and infrared hardware: performance verified in the environment the hardware will actually see, with the data package to prove it.

COTS-to-Flight Cycles

Commercial components screened, qualified, and documented for flight use. The fastest honest path from a catalog part to a part you can put on a mission.

Our approach

Build, test, and document under one roof.

The value of FORGE is not any single machine. It is that fabrication, qualification testing, and the acceptance data package live in one building with one quality system, so a design change is an engineering conversation instead of a vendor negotiation, and delivery includes the evidence, not just the hardware.

The build-out is sequenced like everything else here: the Centennial facility is under contract, the first product lines are defined, and capacity grows against orders rather than ahead of them.

Capability Targets
Build-out targets
Product linesRetroreflectors, LRAs, qualified optical assemblies
Test regimesThermal-vacuum, EO/IR performance, environmental screening
FacilityCentennial, Colorado (53,000 SF under contract)
Quality systemAS9100-pathway QMS in development
TraceabilityFull certificate-of-conformance chain per build
First revenueGround operations from Colorado, 2027

Chamber, cleanroom class, and tolerance-band specifics are staged for publication as commissioning completes. Detail available under NDA.

Quality & compliance

Flight hardware is a paperwork problem too.

ITAR Registered
Registered under U.S. export controls
U.S. Small Business
U.S.-owned and operated
AS9100 Pathway
Flight-hardware quality management system in development
First Article Inspection
FAIR per AS9102 planned for flight hardware
Material Traceability
Certificate-of-conformance chain for every build
Domestic Supply Chain
Critical components sourced in the United States

Process specifications and audit documentation available on request.

Open roles on this program

All open positions
VP Manufacturing / Production Lead
Manufacturing · Colorado · $180K to $250K base
Chief Systems Engineer
Engineering · Colorado · $220K to $300K base
Precision Optical Engineer
Engineering · Colorado · $120K to $165K base
Contracts & Compliance Manager (ITAR / DCAA)
Legal & Contracts · Colorado · $100K to $140K base
Head of Government Business Development & Capture
Business Development · Washington, DC Metro · $200K to $280K base
Program Manager
Programs · Colorado · $140K to $190K base
Quality / Mission Assurance Engineer
Manufacturing · Colorado · $110K to $155K base
Grants & Proposals Writer
Business Development · Colorado · $90K to $130K base
FORGE in the sequence

Revenue starts on the ground. Everything outward is built on it.

FORGE funds the company and qualifies its hardware. Each step beyond it is gated on contracts, not on hope: orbit services on first defense contracts, the lunar surface at Series A.

NEXUS
AI Operations & Cislunar Space Domain Awareness

FORGE test data and sensor hardware feed the awareness layer NEXUS sells as a subscription.

HERMES
Dynamic Space Operations

The vehicles HERMES flies are qualified on FORGE's floor first.

ATLAS
Precision Lunar Logistics

Precision lunar logistics is gated on the manufacturing discipline FORGE builds now.

Send us a part, or a program.

Component and assembly work quotes in 24 to 48 hours. Program-level manufacturing and test discussions are available under NDA.

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