We unlock prime and OEM relationships, export-control navigation, and the supply-chain qualification that US aerospace and space programs require of their suppliers.
Your components, structures, or space hardware fly in Europe. You’ve established a US presence, perhaps secured initial partnerships. But breaking into US aerospace and space supply chains feels impossible.
This market isn’t just technically demanding — it’s relationship-intensive and gated in ways European suppliers underestimate:
We see these channels because we’ve built them. Our legal partners at Snell & Wilmer specialize in aerospace transactions, and our Lex Mundi network supports cross-border structuring. You can’t cold-call your way into a prime’s supply chain.
Strategic introductions to major-OEM suppliers, US operations of European primes, and business aviation OEMs — at engineering and program-management level, not procurement.
ITAR/EAR classification comes first: it shapes what you can share, how a partnership can be structured, and whether FOCI questions arise. We sequence it before it blocks a deal.
AS9100, NADCAP special processes, and aerospace quality systems. We connect European suppliers into US aerospace manufacturing ecosystems without reinventing the compliance wheel.
Civil, defense-adjacent, and commercial space programs each have their own entry points — from NASA SBIR/STTR to prime-led constellations. We help you choose the pathway before you spend on the wrong one.
We map which OEMs, Tier 1s, and programs align with your capability. Aerospace deals take years — we identify where you fit into long-term production cycles, not just this quarter’s opportunities.
Through aerospace legal expertise, the Lex Mundi global network, and UK aerospace relationships, we compress OEM introductions and structuring work that would otherwise take years.
We position European capability for multi-year platform programs and OEM partnerships, not one-off part sales. One strategic Tier 1 relationship unlocks access across multiple programs.
It depends on classification. Since US export-control reform, many commercial satellite items sit under the EAR, while others remain on the ITAR’s munitions list. The classification of your specific product determines everything downstream — so it has to be established before serious conversations.
For commercial and much civil work, yes — through the right structure and export-control posture. Where programs touch classified or controlled work, foreign ownership is managed through FOCI mitigation. The structure question is solvable; ignoring it until diligence is not.
For hardware suppliers it’s the de facto expectation, and NADCAP accreditation applies where special processes are involved. Some primes will engage during your certification path if the capability is compelling — but a credible plan needs to exist before the first meeting.
Realistically 18 to 36 months from first serious effort to qualified-supplier status — depending on classification, quality certification, and where a program sits in its cycle. Relationship-building and qualification run in parallel; neither can be skipped.
If your aerospace or space capability is proven at home and underrealized here — we should have a conversation.
Traksjon assesses fit before committing. The conversation is the first step, not the commitment.
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