Sector context
Aerospace & defense
Primes and their supply chains demand rigorous, traceable quality. We prepare you for AS9100, AS9110 or AS9120 with configuration management, risk and counterfeit-part controls built in.
Changing to IA9100. The AS9100 series is being replaced by IA9100, a single globally unified aerospace quality standard aligned with the 2026 revision of ISO 9001. What is expected to change →
What makes this sector different
The constraints that shape the system.
A management system that ignores sector reality passes on paper and fails in use. These are the pressures QSE expects to work through in aerospace & defense.
Configuration management and traceability
Counterfeit-part prevention and risk controls
How scope gets decided
Four questions before any requirement is chosen.
Selecting a standard before understanding the operation is how organizations end up certified against something that does not describe their risk.
Product or service risk
What can go wrong, who is harmed, and which controls the sector expects as a result.
Regulatory and customer drivers
Which obligations are statutory, which are contractual, and which are market expectations.
Lifecycle and supply chain
Where responsibility passes between organizations, and how that is evidenced.
Evidence and traceability
What records an assessor will look for, and whether they are produced by the work itself.
Commonly applicable
Requirements that usually apply here.
Applicability always depends on product, role, market, and customer obligations. This is a starting point for the conversation, not a determination.
From the insights library
Reading for aerospace & defense.
Begin with context
Talk through your aerospace & defense operation.
Share the products or services in scope, your customers' requirements, and what is driving the timing.