About us

Our Mission

Founded in 2019, Modular Aerospace is on a mission to reduce the time constant of aerospace. This time from concept to actual mission is critical to being competitive. By avoiding unnecessary re-engineering and enabling rapid integration of custom mission equipment, missions fly sooner. With modularity at its core, missions can adapt to new requirements efficiently. This is the Future of Avionics! We achieved this by bringing a new avionics architecture to market providing a high-performance system that is adaptable, reliable, secure, and affordable. Our solution serves every domain including airborne, spacecraft, space launch, hypersonic, lunar robotics, autonomous ground vehicles, and naval vessels.

Experience and Past Performance

Our team and company experience are diverse by the efforts we have in our own product development in addition to supporting our customers with design, production, and operations.  Though most programs we support are not public relationships (pre-patent and pre-market, we support them from the start), some are and we share these customer successes at ConductionTechnologies.com.  This includes system engineering, intellectual property development, concept designs, production design, development, testing, and manufacturing.  Starting from requirements, we design circuits, housing, embedded software, and mobile apps to builds products of the future.

Business areas

  • Modular Avionics
    • Intellectual Property
    • Avionics Products for Sale (or license) 
    • Avionics Integration Support
  • Integrated aerospace systems development (IR&D)
  • Product Manufacturing
    • Additive plastic, subtractive metal & plastics, electronics assembly, laser etch/cut, assembly, programming, testing
    • For internal and client products
    • In-house and through partner network
  • Product Development
    • Systems, Electrical, Mechanical, Embedded software, Mobile App, and Cloud design and development
    • Conduction Technologies – Works-for-Hire Product Development services
      • Leveraging resources for various markets while growing with diverse engineering experience for customers who need support and expertise for their products
  • Product Utilization
    • Low and medium rate production for electrical and mechanical systems
    • Factory automation technologies enabling scalable US production
    • Cloud services supporting product updates, content delivery, remote diagnostics, and issue tracking
    • Conduction Technologies – Manufacturing, Production, and Operations for clients in various markets

Our Team

The Modular Aerospace team also operates as Conduction Technologies

Resolving requirements into integrated systems designs which solve the needs of today’s requirements in alignment with the roadmap of the client’s anticipated growth.  The systems design process ensures the complexities of development, production, and use of every element is optimal and will perform well as a finished product.

Available to conceptualize, design, analyze, build, test, and document electronic circuits. This may include work with power supplies, microprocessors, sensors, radios, and other critical technologies for most embedded projects. Advanced technologies demand state-of-the-art design with state-of-the-art chip and manufacturing processes. Often,  electrical design are robotically manufactured. 

Available to conceptualize, design, implement, document, and test embedded firmware and software for controlling the embedded systems. This may include work with bare metal RTOS, Linux, etc. on various architectures such as ARM. Real time, stable, secure code is a common theme across programs. 

Available to conceptualize, design, prototype manufacture, document, and test various mechanical systems, both as mechanisms and housings. Thermal and structural design is critical but challenged by manufacturability, environmental protection, weight, and reliability challenges. These designs include metals, plastics, composites, and other materials, depending on the program.

Often tightly coupled with embedded system development is a mobile app! We are available to conceptualize, design, implement, document, and test cross-platform mobile apps developed in Flutter. We have an internal software repository we are able to use to move efficiently through the development of apps talking with hardware for customer projects.

Responsible for developing, maintaining, and reporting the complex set of tasks for a product to be developed. This includes internal efforts and other supplier efforts to ensure a successful outcome for programs.

As designs are created, we manufacture first prototypes for customers to test and validate that the design meets the requirements. This may invoice electronics assembly, mechanical fabrication, or system level testing.

Leadership

Modular Aerospace is led by Eric Becnel. He has over a decade of experience supporting system level integration with embedded technologies. This experience includes spacecraft, manned aviation, unmanned aviation, industrial, health, and consumer product development, often serving as a chief engineer. He has supported private industry (X-prize missions and tech startups) in addition to working with NASA, ARMY, and AFWERX on various programs. Mr. Becnel is an Aerospace and Mechanical Engineer, with a master’s degree in advanced heat transfer. He has experience with electronics, embedded firmware, solar cells, batteries, metals, plastics, manufacturing, testing, quality control, production processes, and more. 

Eric Becnel Conduction Technologies Chief Engineer

Using this wide range of experience, Mr. Becnel is a critical problem solver and approaches each question by understanding the requirements of a given technical need, evaluating possible technical solutions, and making a recommendation of how to best use available technologies. The method of creative problem solving has resulted in the development of multiple patented technologies

Our Office

If you are in the Huntsville, Alabama area, schedule an appointment to visit our engineering office for a behind the scenes look at how we solve complex avionics problems and support mission success.