Arizona Mission Manufacturing Cluster
Build here. Supply the mission. Scale in Arizona.
The Arizona Mission Manufacturing Cluster helps small businesses pursue defense opportunities, strengthen supplier readiness, and prepare for production and growth.
An SBA Regional Innovation Cluster led by Southwest Mission Acceleration Center. Serving Arizona statewide.
Mission manufacturing ecosystem
- Microelectronics & Mission Electronics
- Autonomous & Uncrewed Systems
- Weapons, Munitions & Propulsion
Led by Southwest Mission Acceleration Center
What could help your business move forward?
Small Businesses & Manufacturers
Understand where your capabilities fit, identify barriers to competing, and develop practical next steps with our team.
Explore Business Support →Primes, OEMs & Mission Customers
Bring a defined supplier need. We help identify potential Arizona capabilities and coordinate supplier-development resources.
Explore Buyer Support →Resource Partners
Apply your technical, manufacturing, workforce, or capital expertise to companies with a defined need.
Become a Resource Partner →From customer demand to production and scale.
Companies can enter at different stages. Assistance is tailored to their needs and delivered with relevant partners.
- Stage 1
Market & Demand
Explore customer needs and identify where your capabilities fit.
- Stage 2
Supplier Development
Review capabilities and identify priorities for customer readiness.
- Stage 3
Validation & Qualification
Connect with relevant testing facilities and technical expertise.
- Stage 4
Production & Scale
Identify manufacturing, workforce, financing, and expansion resources.
Four capability areas. A connected industrial base.
- Microelectronics, Sensors & Mission Electronics
- Semiconductors, advanced packaging, RF technologies, sensors, mission computing, and positioning, navigation, and timing.
- Autonomous & Uncrewed Systems
- Uncrewed platforms, autonomy, robotics, counter-UAS, navigation, perception, and supporting technologies.
- Weapons, Munitions & Propulsion
- Energetics, propulsion, precision weapons, fuzing, actuation, and associated components and production technologies.
- Advanced Defense Manufacturing
- Precision machining, electronics manufacturing, additive manufacturing, composites, automation, and digital manufacturing.
Together, these capabilities support defense, aerospace, space, and other demanding industrial markets.
Discover the capabilities behind Arizona’s manufacturing.
AMMC is mapping manufacturing capabilities and supplier relationships to help companies find opportunities and identify where additional support or capacity is needed. Initial discovery is focused on energetics and propulsion.
- Discover potential suppliers.
- Identify supplier-development needs.
- Inform expansion and attraction priorities.
Have a supplier challenge? Start with one defined need.
Share a capability requirement, purchasing category, or recurring supplier barrier. We work with your team to identify potential Arizona suppliers and coordinate relevant development resources.
An existing operating network. A focused manufacturing mission.
AMMC builds on SW MAC’s work in technology scouting, company support, and rapid experimentation. The cluster applies that experience to helping Arizona small businesses pursue supplier opportunities and address barriers to production and scale.
About AMMC & SW MACWhat working with us looks like
- 1Share your capabilities and goals.
- 2Identify priorities with our team.
- 3Work through relevant assistance and introductions.
- 4Follow up on progress and next steps.