Technology and history are tightly interwoven at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) where astronauts are trained and US manned space flights are monitored.Drawn to the natural business development advantages flowing from JSC, which annually administers over $4 billion in federal aerospace contracts, 52 contractors perform leading-edge work managing the Space Shuttle, International Space Station, astronaut training, advanced human support technology, biomedical research and space medicine.

Aerospace contractors and sub contractors located in the Bay Area Houston region include:

Critique, Inc.
Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems
BAE Systems
BF Goodrich Company
The Boeing Company
Bombardier
Bookham
Carlo Gavazzi Space
Cessna Aircraft Company
CIC International Ltd
Coltec Industries
Cordant Technologies
CTA
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
Diehl
DRS Technologies

Duncan Aviation
Duncan Aviation
EADS
EDF-Espace Recherche et Developpment
EOTech
Expeditors International of Washington
Jacobs Sverdrup
Kaman Corporation
COmmunications Holdings
Lagardere
Lincoln Laboratory (MIT)
Litton Industries
Lockheed Martin Corporation
GE Aircraft Engines
GenCorp
General Dynamics Corp.
Goodrich Corporation
Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation
Hamilton Sundstrand
Harris Corporation
Helicopter Support
Shear Technology Corp.
Hughes Electronics Corp.
ICF Consulting
Integral Systems
Interface Displays
Mason & Hanger Corporation
Matsushita Avionics Systems
MicroPilot
Montena
Moog Inc.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Newport News Shipbuilding
Nichols Research Corporation
Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA)
Northrop Grumman Corp.
Orbital Sciences
United Technologies Corporation
SAIC, Science Applications International Corporation
SARCOM
Sequa Corporation
Smiths Aerospace
Smiths Group plc
Solar Turbines
Sonalysts, Inc.
Southwest Airlines Co.
Stellex Aerostructures
Sundstrand Corporation
Surveillance Australia
Telos
Textron Inc.
TRW Inc.
United Defense
United Space Alliance, LLC.
United Technologies Corporation
VSE Corporation