by James Wright | Sep 21, 2026 | Aerospace Compliance & Quality, Blog, Defense Manufacturing
ITAR and CMMC get treated as interchangeable in casual conversation, and they’re not. One governs who’s allowed to touch defense technical data. The other governs how securely you have to protect it once you do. Quick summary: ITAR (22 CFR Parts 120–130) is an...
by Accurate Machine & Tool Team | Sep 15, 2026 | Aerospace Compliance & Quality, Aerospace Machining, Blog, CNC Machining
Open ten aerospace drawings and you’ll find ±0.001” on features that have no business needing it. That’s not because engineers are being careless — it’s because tight tolerance has become the safe default in a risk-averse industry. The problem is that “safe” and...
by James Wright | Aug 7, 2026 | Aerospace Compliance & Quality, Aerospace Machining, Blog, CNC Machining, Defense Manufacturing, Manufacturing & Cost Estimating
The single biggest sticker shock in aerospace machining isn’t the material or the machine time. It’s everything around them — the compliance documentation, the first-article inspection, the material certification, the ITAR overhead, the NRE for fixturing a part...
by James Wright | Jul 23, 2026 | Blog
If you’re writing or reviewing a process plan for a hybrid-manufactured part — SLM-printed blank, CNC-finished to drawing — the machining allowance is the number that determines whether the finished part cleans up or gets scrapped. For flight-critical hardware, it...
