Blake Andreasen, Impact ES National Sales Manager, and Beto Dantas, Impact ES President and CEO with the Collins Aerospace team.
We're proud to share that Impact ES–Grants Pass (ESAM) has been awarded a 2026 Collins Aerospace Outstanding Supplier Award, recognized in the Interconnect category for the cable and wire harness assemblies that carry every signal across Collins Aerospace's Avionics & Mission Systems platforms. It is one of the most rigorous categories in aerospace manufacturing, and an honor reserved for suppliers Collins Aerospace relies on most heavily. This award is a testament to the discipline, craftsmanship, and partnership that define the work our Grants Pass team delivers every day.
Collins Aerospace, part of RTX, designs and manufactures the Avionics & Mission Systems that fly on commercial, defense, and rotary-wing aircraft around the world, including flight controls, navigation, communications, mission management, and more. The Interconnect category covers the cable and wire harness assemblies that carry every signal in those systems. There is zero tolerance for variation: in flight-critical avionics, an interconnect that meets specification 99% of the time is a failure.
Collins Aerospace presents its Outstanding Supplier Award to partners who demonstrate outstanding collaboration, customer service, and commitment to excellence within the aerospace and defense sector. It is an award reserved for suppliers Collins Aerospace relies on most heavily across its Avionics & Mission Systems programs.
In recognizing Impact ES–Grants Pass, Collins Aerospace specifically called out the partnership behaviors that keep their programs on schedule:
“We are pleased to recognize Impact ES–Grants Pass for their continued commitment to our mission and their exceptional support of Collins Aerospace's dynamic and evolving needs. Impact ES–Grants Pass consistently provides competitive RFQ responses with favorable lead times and costs, and they work closely with us during new product introductions by leveraging long-lead components already in our inventory to accelerate first deliveries. Their ability to flex and pull in additional quantities as demand increases has been essential in helping Collins Aerospace meet test and customer schedules across several high-visibility programs. Impact ES–Grants Pass has also been highly responsive as we updated our internal buffer strategy, adapting quickly to fluctuations in demand—whether pull-ins or pushouts—and demonstrating their strong alignment with our rapidly changing requirements.”
— Collins Aerospace
That feedback captures something we work hard to build into every customer relationship: a manufacturing partner that doesn't just hit the spec but absorbs the volatility that comes with high-visibility aerospace programs. New product introductions accelerated by long-lead components we already had on hand. Pull-ins absorbed without disrupting commitments to other customers. Buffer strategy changes met with quick alignment instead of pushback.
This kind of award isn't earned in a single shipment. It's the result of years of compounding process discipline:
AS9100D-certified quality management—the aerospace and defense standard
ITAR registration—or controlled handling of defense-related technical data and hardware
Nadcap® accreditation for electronics, cable and wire harness assemblies—independently audited for genuine process maturity
IPC/WHMA-A-620D and 620D-S (Space)—workmanship standards
Full lot traceability—from raw material through final delivery
100% final testing and inspection—on every assembly
Behind every certification is a team that lives those standards on the production floor. The award from Collins Aerospace reflects what our customers experience every day, and what our Grants Pass operators, engineers, quality leads, and planners deliver shift after shift.
To everyone at Impact ES–Grants Pass: thank you. This award belongs to all of you.
It is the operator who catches the issue at first article. The quality lead who holds the line when production pressure rises. The engineer who walks through the assembly sequence one more time to make it cleaner. The planner who absorbs schedule volatility so the floor can stay focused. The supply chain partner who turns a long-lead component already in inventory into an accelerated first delivery. None of it shows up in an award announcement—but all of it shows up in the work.
This is your award.
We also want to thank our partners at Collins Aerospace for the trust they've placed in Impact. Aerospace partnerships aren't built quickly. They are built over years of consistent performance on programs where the stakes are real, and we don't take for granted what it means to be entrusted with that work.
Awards like this strengthen our commitment to the partnership and to the Avionics & Mission Systems that depend on the work coming out of Grants Pass. We're proud of what we've built together so far, and we're focused on what's next.
To our team, to Collins Aerospace, and to every customer who depends on Impact for high-reliability electronics manufacturing—thank you.
