Aerospace Companies

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Jun 22, 2015
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A lot of people ask for a recommended company for their respective backgrounds.

It's getting around to the time of year when graduating students will be searching for jobs, asking on here for ideas and I think it would be a huge help if everyone could contribute to putting together a list of Aerospace companies so we could just point everyone asking in the direction of the list.

To start....

Military

Lockheed Martin
BAe Systems
Northrop Grumman
Boeing Defense, Space & Security
Airbus Defence & Space
Dassault Aviation
Alliant Techsystems
General Dynamics
UTC Aerospace Systems
Raytheon
DynCorp
Aerojet Rocketdyne
US Air Force
Department of Defense (USA)
Royal Air Force
Ministry of Defence (UK)
NAVAIR - U.S. Navy Naval Air Systems Command
AATD - Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (US Army)
NRL - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
AFRL - U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory
Ensign-Bickford

Commercial

Airbus
General Dynamics (Gulfstream parent company)
Boeing Commercial
Textron (Beechcraft & Cessna)
Bombardier
Embraer
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Spirit AeroSystems
Atkins (Focused on airports)
B/E Aerospace

Space

SpaceX
Airbus Defence & Space (Formerly Astrium)
Boeing Defense, Space & Security
Ad Astra Rocket Company
Aerojet Rocketdyne
Aerospace Corporation
Andrews Space
Armadillo Aerospace
Astrobotic Technology Inc.
Astronautics Corporation
Astrotech
Bigelow Aerospace
Blue Origin
Deep Space Industries
Draper Labs
Dynetics Inc
Excalibur Almaz
FireFly Space Systems
Frontier Astronautics
Golden Spike
Intelsat
Interorbital Systems
Jet Propulsion Lab
John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
Masten Space
Moon Express
NASA Langley Research Center
Orbital Sciences
Orbitec
Paragon Space Dev Corp
Planet Labs
Planetary Resources
Scaled Composites (TIL it's owned by Northrop Grumman!)
Scorpius
Sierra Nevada Space Systems (Formerly SpaceDev)
Skybox Imaging
Space Adventures
Space Island Group
Space Propulsion Group
Space Systems/Loral
The Spaceship Company (Now owned by Virgin Galactic)
TransOrbital
United Launch Alliance
United Space Alliance
Up Aerospace Inc
Wickman Spacecraft
Virgin Galactic
XCOR Aerospace
Lockheed Martin
Sierra Lobo Inc
Universities Space Research Association
Ensign-Bickford
Astro Aerospace (Owned by Northrop Grumman)

Helicopters

Sikorsky
Airbus Helicopters (Formerly Eurocopter)
Finmeccanica (Augusta Westland)
Textron (Bell Helicopters)
Boeing Defense, Space & Security
MD Helicopters
Robinson Helicopters
Piasecki Aircraft Corporation

Engines

Pratt & Whitney
GE
SAFRAN
Rolls Royce
Precision Castparts
MTU Aero Engines
IHI Corporation
Honeywell
Consolidated Precision Products (CPP Corp)
Lycoming Engines (Owned by Textron)
Aerojet Rocketdyne
Williams International
Darma Technology
HMX
TGV Rockets Inc

Systems

Raytheon
Honeywell
L-3
Thales
Zodiac
Rockwell Collins
Harris
Triumph
Alliant Techsystems
Ball Aerospace
Sierra Nevada Corp
UTC Aerospace Systems
TE Connectivity
Garmin
Eaton Aerospace
Parker Aerospace
Meggitt PLC
Cobham
Jacobs
Gilcrest
ZIN Technologies
Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies
Vantage Partners
SAIC - science applications international corporation
Vencore
TASC Inc
Booz Allen Hamilton
Leidos (Formerly SAIC)
Scitor Corp
Exelis
Duotech
AOA Xinetics (Owned by Northrop Grumman)
Cutting Edge Optronics (Owned by Northrop Grumman)
M5 Network Security (Owned by Northrop Grumman)
Microelectronics Products & Services (Guess what... Also owned by Northrop Grumman)
Sonoma Photonics Inc (No I don't know why it's a pdf either o.O)
Synoptics (Owned by Northrop)