Shape the industrial agenda
Shape the priorities.
Bring real market signals, operating expertise, and institutional perspective to the bottlenecks and opportunities that matter most.
Foundational partnerships
Help build
what comes next.
Connect your expertise, relationships, and resources with the leaders working to expand America’s space industrial capacity.
Explore a partnershipWhy this region. Why now.
An industrial ecosystem.
A shared opportunity.
Southern California brings together mission owners, aerospace companies, manufacturers, engineering talent, and capital. STEF helps turn those connections into practical collaboration.
Connect to execution
Put your expertise to work.
Build relationships around active production requirements, financing needs, technology adoption, facilities, workforce, and supplier capacity.
Build an enduring position
Build lasting relationships.
Contribute to the region’s long-term industrial competitiveness through active participation and follow-through.
More than sponsorship
Contribute expertise.
Advance shared priorities.
Partnerships are shaped around what your organization can contribute: operating expertise, technology, financing, infrastructure, or the ability to bring the right people together.
Executive working sessions
Contribute expertise where the three working tracks address demand alignment, production bottlenecks, and industrial-scale financing.
Targeted ecosystem connections
Build relevant relationships based on qualified operating needs and legitimate commercial opportunities—not preferential procurement access.
Follow-through beyond the forum
Support practical follow-through, an Industrial-Base Action Report, and a potential continuing series focused on strengthening U.S. industrial capabilities.
Partnerships are intentionally limited and shaped around strategic fit, contribution, and the outcomes each organization wants to advance.
Discuss a partnershipBuilding the platform together
Current partners and collaborators.
