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Critical assemblies, like servo valves, power supplies, and sensors, are defined by their integral role in the functioning of every aircraft, submarine, and power plant in the world. They’re also defined by decades of scarce and uncodified tribal knowledge. These inputs were often developed by small teams spread across the country, each having their own specialization and tribal knowledge, built through decades of physical trial-and-error. Yet as these companies consolidate or disappear daily, we lose the engineering knowledge that’s needed to build the critical inputs that underpin every piece of modern infrastructure.

It begins with preserving and building on the incredible wealth of knowledge that still exists across American industry. We do so by acquiring or partnering with long-standing companies that still have engineering know-how and codifying it: we interview employees, record how everything was designed, and digitize drawings that are gathering dust in storage cabinets. In addition, we grow and improve the specialized production operations of these companies to ensure we’re capable of manufacturing anything that we engineer.

We then integrate this codified knowledge into our custom suite of software tools to help accelerate the engineering process. The software enables our engineers to apply decades of real engineering knowledge to any new component they work on, ensuring all discovery and designs are strengthened by the rigour and knowledge of our predecessors.

Our engineers then improve and actualize their designs with Protoshop, a fully dedicated learning, prototyping, and testing lab at our HQ that allows us to rapidly iterate in physical space, much like the engineers from the era prior to the advent of simulation software. Prototyping and testing is done in the order of hours and days at Amca, as opposed to the weeks, months, or years it takes at other engineering organizations.

Through this, Amca becomes the place where the most ambitious engineers have the most powerful resources to solve the most important industrial challenges of our generation at an incredibly fast pace.

We are re-engineering hundreds of unique critical products with this approach, each solving an urgent problem in the industrial base: missing technical data keeping fighter jets grounded; failing parts whose OEMs don’t have the knowledge to fix; or long-lead parts causing production-halting delays. Without Amca, many of these projects would have been impossible or taken years, bogged down by the attempted rediscovery of what a retired generation did. With our approach, they are now often taking us weeks, and we expect timelines to shrink further.

Zooming out, our vision is not a new one. The people who built American industry similarly believed in engineering’s ability to reshape the physical world with unreasonable speed and maniacal ambition. But with the power of today’s technology, we can do so much more than recreate the past. We want to enable a new generation of engineers to imagine and build things with the same ambition that we once had. And we believe the future should be one in which every physical system that can be imagined can be built.