Capabilities – Aerospace and Defense
Senior Mechanical Engineering for Defense sub-primes and Aerospace OEMs
Actuation systems, precision rotating equipment, MIL-SPEC structural design, and analysis coordination. Principal-led. 40 years of program experience. Available when your team isn’t.
Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm ET – Long Island New York
Mechanical Engineering from requirements to Qualification
WHAT ADEPT DOES
Mechanical engineering from requirements to qualification.
Adept provides mechanical engineering on defense and aerospace programs — design, structural analysis, and the coordination of simulation and test that qualification requires. Every engagement is directed by the principal engineer. The scope accepted is the scope delivered.
The work Adept does in this sector is the work that sits between the program requirement and the qualification test: the mechanical design that must survive the environment, the structural analysis that predicts whether it will, and the simulation that tells the designer what to change before the hardware goes on the shaker table. Adept prepares the statements of work for those simulations, selects and directs the analysts who run them, and reviews the outputs before they inform the design. The analyst executes. The engineer owns the result.
Most defense and aerospace engagements begin one of three ways: a program that needs to move and the internal team is committed elsewhere, a design that has failed review or test and needs independent assessment, or a scope that falls outside the in-house team’s specific domain. All three are the right engagement for Adept.
HOW THE WORK GETS DONE
Two disciplines. One point of accountability
Design and Analysis: One Scope, One Engineer in Charge
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Adept manages the relationship between mechanical design and engineering analysis as a single coordinated scope — not two workstreams handed off between groups. The designer and the analyst are in contact from the first layout. The SOW defines what the simulation must answer, not what the program manager thinks it should say.
The statement of work given to an analyst defines the quality of the analysis. An SOW written by someone who doesn’t understand the failure mode being simulated produces results that answer the wrong question — regardless of how competently the analysis was executed. Adept writes the SOW. That means the simulation is scoped to the actual design risk, the analyst is selected for the specific problem type, and the output is reviewed by the engineer who designed the hardware before it informs any change.
When a test fails — and in defense programs, test failures happen — the simulation already in place means the failure can be reviewed against a known analytical baseline. The path to the next test is accelerated because the analytical foundation is already built. That is not a contingency. It is the standard process.
MIL-SPEC Design: Requirements Drive the Design From Day One more…
MIL-SPEC requirements are not test parameters applied at the end of a program. They are design parameters. Adept designs to MIL-STD-810 shock and vibration environments, thermal requirements, and structural load cases from the first layout — not as a validation step at the end.
A mechanical component designed without reference to its qualification test environment will fail that test. The redesign that follows is avoidable. Adept’s engagements in this sector begin with the applicable specifications — not with a geometry that gets checked against requirements later.
Adept does not pursue direct government contracts or prime engagements requiring DFARS and FAR compliance management.Adept works at the sub-prime and sub-tier level — the engineering is Adept’s, the procurement and contractual compliance is the sub-prime’s. That division is clean, understood by both parties, and means Adept’s full attention goes to the engineering.
Capabilities in this Sector
Actuation & Drivetrain
Planetary, helical, and spur gearbox design — single and multi-stage, aerospace environments
Electromechanical and hydraulic actuator design to aerospace load and environmental requirements
Fuel system mechanical components to Tier 1 aerospace supplier specifications
Bearing selection and life analysis — high-cycle, aerospace-grade
Shaft and housing design — torsion, bending, fatigue, critical speed
Structural component design to MIL-STD-810 shock and vibration environments
Housing, bracket, and frame design — airborne, ground, and shipboard
Material selection — weight, strength, corrosion, temperature range
Fastener and joint design for vibration and fatigue environments
SOW preparation for FEA, CFD, vibration, and thermal analysis
Analyst identification, vetting, and direction
Design-analysis integration — interim results fed back into design decisions
Simulation-to-test correlation — failure analysis and simulation revision
Review and interpretation of all analysis outputs before client delivery
Design review preparation — drawings, analysis summaries, design rationale
Design recovery — assessment and correction of designs that have failed review or test
Prototype development oversight — vendor selection, build oversight, test planning
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