Powering Partners · NHADC
New Hampshire Aerospace & Defense Consortium
We're proud to run the website of the New Hampshire Aerospace & Defense Consortium (NHADC), and to keep it maintained, current and secure. We also supported the Phase 1 buildout of NHADC's Prime Ready program, which helps aerospace and defense suppliers show primes they're ready for the work.
About NHADC
NHADC is a nonprofit consortium based in Manchester, New Hampshire, serving companies across aerospace, maritime, space and defense: land, sea, air and space. It works with its members, prime contractors and the Department of Defense to strengthen the supply chain and to match buyers with suppliers by what they can actually do.
Prime Ready: proof a prime can trust
Prime Ready gives suppliers a standard assessment of their capabilities against prime contractor requirements. Primes and the Department of Defense use it to make sourcing decisions; the higher a supplier scores, the better positioned it is to meet a contractor's requirements, with top scores earning status levels such as Prime Ready Gold. It looks at four areas:
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Manufacturing processes
Equipment, tolerances and process controls.
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Quality management
Quality systems, inspection and certifications.
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Special processes
Work such as heat treatment, welding and plating.
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Materials management
Handling, traceability and material expertise.
Who Prime Ready is for
Prime Ready is built for the companies that make, finish and assemble for aerospace, maritime, space and defense programs: machine shops, fabricators, special process houses, assemblers and the suppliers behind them, from Tier 1 down the chain. If you want primes and the Department of Defense to see what you can really do, in the same format they use to choose suppliers, it's for you.
It works for the buyers too. Prime contractors and defense sourcing teams use it to find suppliers whose capabilities, capacity and compliance are already laid out, instead of starting every search from scratch. It's a smart piece of work from NHADC, and one we're glad to have helped build.
Selling into aerospace and defense? We encourage you to join NHADC
If your company makes parts, assemblies or services for aerospace and defense, we encourage you to join NHADC and take part in Prime Ready. It puts your capabilities in the format primes already use to choose suppliers, and it's one of the most direct ways to get in front of the buyers you want. Membership and Prime Ready are run by NHADC: these links take you to their site.
What we do for NHADC
Ongoing work, plus a program we're proud to have helped launch.
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Website and maintenance
We run NHADC's website and maintain it: updates, backups and security, so it stays current and secure for the buyers who check it.
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Prime Ready, Phase 1
We supported the Phase 1 buildout of the Prime Ready program, helping turn supplier capabilities into the clear, standard picture primes need.
Why this matters for every supplier
Prime Ready and a strong website do the same job from two sides. Prime Ready shows a buyer your capabilities in a standard format; your website has to back it up when they come looking. If a prime reads that you hold tolerances, run special processes or deliver a first article and your site says none of it, the trust breaks. Make sure both tell the same story.
How association work connects
Running association sites keeps us close to how manufacturers here describe their work. What we learn about the trade goes into IKE, the Industrial Knowledge Engine behind all our work, so every page we write starts from how the trade really talks. What IKE learns is manufacturing. Member records stay theirs.
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Powering Partners
All the associations whose sites we run.
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IKE, the Industrial Knowledge Engine
The engine at the centre of everything we do.