Jabil's Defense and Aerospace Services specializes in affordability for high-mix, low- to-medium volume manufacturing solutions for the aerospace and defense industries. Our unique business model allows us to be true partners with our customers. Our highly skilled and experienced workforce provides exceptional responsiveness, efficiency and quality.

Solutions for Highly Complex, Electro-Mechanical Products

We leverage global material scale and manufacturing experience to deliver affordable electronic solutions to compliment OEM core competencies and reduce program costs (Design to Unit Cost). In an increasingly competitive global marketplace, we offer:

• Global Material Scale
• Electro-Mechanical Layout and Manufacturing
• System Integration and Optimized Assembly
• Cost-out Redesign Services (Material and Value Engineering)

Proven Experience

Jabil has proven experience across a wide range of defense and aerospace products and equipment.

Product Experience-Defense

• Military robotic systems
• Electronic sub-systems for unmanned air vehicles
• Servo-control electronics
• Mission critical networking
• Airborne, ship-based and fixed/mobile ground systems
• Defense communication
• Secure and tactical communications
• Ruggedized computers
• Chemical and biological agent detection
• V-tronics products and systems
• Satellite communications and navigation
• Power distribution
• Military Satellite Subsystems Involving Embedded Processors

Product Experience-Aerospace

• Data transfer and mass memory storage
• Modular processing and flight management
• Phased Array Search Radar
• Passive Detection
• Full Authority Digital Engine Control systems (FADEC)
• Central Air Data Computers (CADC)
• Traffic Alerting and Collision Avoidance
• Electronic Flight Instrumentation

Design, Prototyping and New Product Introduction

Jabil offers world-class electronic and electro-mechanical design services to reduce new and existing program costs. Our New Product Introduction and Rapid Prototyping help relieve defense and aerospace customers' development burdens, resulting in faster time-to-market through excellence in quality and engineering support.

• Dedicated Resources – Fully staffed, cross functional team-- including purchasing, configuration management, production control and engineering personnel; dedicated equipment
• Extensive Expertise – Expertise in the defense and aerospace industry, regulatory requirements, technologies and complexity
• Flexible Solutions – Tailored to customer needs with access to a wide range of processing capabilities
• Seamless Transition to Production – Face-to-face transition to production; Design assistance from concept through detail design phases
• Design for Manufacturability and Testability, with design and development of test processes

Global Footprint

With our existing world-wide footprint, we have expertise in scaling international business, including local material supply chains, as an offset vehicle in global aerospace & defense markets.

• Jabil Defense and Aerospace Services locations: Florida; Arizona; United Kingdom; Singapore; China; India; Brazil
• Jabil's global footprint allows us to directly or indirectly support both regional production and industrial participation (offset) requirements.
• Jabil reduces time and cost-to-market for electronics by providing complete worldwide supply chain management.
• JDAS offers global expertise in developing and supporting complex aerospace and defense products from design through manufacturing and sustainment.

Full Life Cycle Support

Our Aftermarket Services Teams provide support for long product life cycle to effectively manage scale, inventory, logistics and obsolescence mitigation for parts and components.

Aftermarket sustainment options

• Design engineering, component engineering, failure analysis and product level testing

Obsolescence mitigation for parts and components

• Jabil investigates and manages immediate obsolescence needs and offers long-term mitigation solutions

Logistical Services

• Global Supply Chain Management, Local Suppliers
• Build-To-Order/Configure-To-Order
• Inventory Management, including warehouse and delivery points, safety stock and direct fulfillment

Security, Certifications, Anti-Counterfeit Protection and Experience

Market Experience and Applications
Jabil provides the level of quality and security essential in the highly regulated industries of defense and aerospace, in conjunction with advanced IP protections systems and market-leading anti-counterfeit protection.

Certifications

• Aerospace: AS9100, EN9100, FAA 145 repair facility
• Quality: ISO 9001:2000
• Environmental: ISO 14001:2004
• OHSAS 18001
• Regulatory Certificates: UL, CSA, TUV

Security

• ITAR Registration
• Advanced IP protection systems, data handling and process
• Authorized facilities for secure defense electronics manufacturing
• Strict anti-counterfeit protection
• Offers a global and secure IT deployment process

Tools and Processes

• Lean Manufacturing – organized approach to reduce waste
• Six Sigma – disciplined methodologies for the total elimination of defects
• Access to customer data at the plant-floor level via online customized data reporting
• Operates a single global enterprise resource planning system (SAP) in all Jabil facilities worldwide
• Closed-loop planning supported by real-time traceability tools for products and raw materials