Florida's Space Coast is launching more rockets than ever, and building more of them too. We write and prove out programs at your machine, built to keep inspection on pace with the launch manifest.
Florida's Space Coast set a record with 109 launches in 2025, and more of the hardware is now built here too: heavy-lift rockets and upper stages, lunar landers, and the structures that go with them, made on the Space Coast instead of shipped in from somewhere else.
Manufacturing employment around Titusville, Melbourne and Palm Bay is up about 30 percent since 2019. Around the launch providers runs a supplier base of machine shops, fabricators and component makers from Merritt Island and Cape Canaveral down through Rockledge, Melbourne and Palm Bay, with aviation and defense electronics work in the same corridor.
The CMM Programmer works at that end of the business: the shops and labs making flight hardware at a pace nobody was asking for ten years ago.
For most of the space industry's history, flight hardware was built a few units at a time, and a CMM program might run a handful of times in its life. At today's launch rates, the same part numbers come back week after week, and inspection has to keep up.
We write programs for that pace: alignments that hold up shift after shift, probing that is efficient without cutting corners, and reports your customer reads the same way on the hundredth part as on the first. When a prototype program has to become a production program, we rework it at your machine without losing what made it right.
And when production outgrows the people you have, we can cover the machine or train your next programmer, on your parts and your version of PC-DMIS.
The work centers on the Space Coast, from Titusville and Merritt Island through Cape Canaveral, Rockledge, Melbourne and Palm Bay, and reaches across the state: Orlando and the I-4 corridor, Tampa Bay, Jacksonville, and South Florida from Palm Beach through Fort Lauderdale to Miami, where a sizable aviation and aerospace parts base sits behind the beaches. Wherever in Florida the machine sits, we bring the programming to it.
When two or three shops in the same part of the state have work waiting, one visit can serve them all, with the travel expenses split between them. We work with you to make the most sense of your workload, schedule, and budget.
New part programs written and proven out at the machine
An experienced contract programmer on your floor when the need arises, hourly or daily
First article dimensional reports built to satisfy your customer's quality requirements
Custom training on your parts, your probing, and your version
$125 per hour and $950 per day, the same rates as everywhere else in the country.
Yes, CMM programs can keep up with space hardware production rates when they are written for repeat runs from the start, with stable alignments, efficient probing paths and consistent reporting, so the same part number measures the same way on every shift and inspection stops being the bottleneck between the machine and the launch manifest.
We also rework prototype programs into production programs at your machine, without losing the decisions that made them right.
Scheduling on-site CMM programming in Florida usually runs one to two weeks out for a planned multi-day visit, and sometimes sooner when the calendar allows, so a deadline driven by the launch schedule does not have to wait for an opening weeks away.
Urgent situations are worth a call regardless; we arrange travel around your dates the very best we can.
On-site programming coverage in Florida centers on the Space Coast, from Titusville and Merritt Island through Cape Canaveral, Rockledge, Melbourne and Palm Bay, and extends across the state to Orlando and the I-4 corridor, Tampa Bay, Jacksonville, and South Florida from Palm Beach through Fort Lauderdale to Miami.
If the machine is anywhere in Florida, it's close enough.
Validation of a new CMM program for production inspection is always your decision and your record, because you own the quality system that defines what evidence is sufficient to release a program into regulated production use, and that judgment cannot be delegated to an outside programmer.
We prove out programs at the machine, and we can support first article runs, correlation checks and repeatability studies during the visit. But the final judgment that the program is fit to run production stays where your quality system puts it.
Tell us about the machine, the parts, and the timeline. We will do our very best to plan around your dates, and it costs nothing to talk through it first. When a quote is the next step, a follow-up comes back with timing and a straightforward number.
