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Clear Align delivers optical engineering and systems integration strategically focused on imaging and lasers systems to clients around the world. Although the company was formed in 2003, our acquisitions bring over 50 years of experience supplying advanced optical engineering, prototyping and manufacturing to the aerospace & defense, commercial and medical markets. Clear Align’s imaging expertise spans the UV, visible, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, and LWIR portions of the spectrum. The company’s laser expertise includes optical integration for communications, remote sensing and targeting, as well as for medical applications. As an SBA, SDB and WOSB, Clear Align delivers complex and cost-effective solutions from space to undersea systems.

ITAR Registered

Clear Align is registered with International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and has implemented measures to ensure secure implementation for defense-related programs. On these programs, all staff are US Persons. All technical data is ITAR controlled, including information required for the design, development, production, integration, testing, maintenance, and modification of products or services.

Manufacturing Controls

Clear Align has invested significantly in electronic manufacturing controls deploying Visual Manufacturing ERP from Infor in all locations; Our systems are as advanced as those deployed in much larger companies but designed to be paper-free and more flexible. This investment helps us maintain our focus on on-time and quality delivery with global oversight of manufacturing at all our locations in one system. Our configuration management and change control system currently manages component level changes and authority on BOMS with over 7,000 components or subassemblies. Our supply chain management system tracks over 200 qualified suppliers with annual report cards and risk mitigation strategies that are reviewed by our management team. Our system is designed to ensure traceability and compliance with all key quality systems including the latest revisions of ISO9000, AS9100 and military and DCAA requirements. We believe our enterprise wide resource planning sets us apart.

Cleanroom Assembly

At Clear Align, we deliver high-quality precision optical assemblies by combining key factors, one of the most vital of which is cleanliness. We provide clean manufacturing operations ranging from Class 100,000 to Class 100. Our facility is equipped with ESD-safe assembly and testing stations to ensure safe delivery of your ESD-sensitive systems. Clear Align’s highly trained team has a consistent record of delivering high-quality results with a customer-centered approach that sets us apart.

DCAA Compliance

All project costs are monitored per Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) requirements as defined by Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR). Examples of controls include detailed labor and material tracking for each project and tracking of only allowable direct expenses on government programs..

Customers

Clear Align serves over a hundred customers and is diversified in the aerospace & defense, commercial and medical markets from component to system. Customers include BAE Systems, Canadian Space Agency, Defense Logistics Agency, DRS, Federal Aviation Agency, General Dynamics, Honeywell, L3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Northrop Grumman, Novartis, Google, Raytheon, US Army, US Customs and Border Patrol and the US Navy.

Management

Angelique X. Irvin

Chief Executive Officer

Justin Wexler

Chief Financial Officer

Gregory Bell

Chief Operations Officer

Jonathan Kane, PhD

Chief Technology Officer

Ed Mourar

VP Engineering

Robert W. Irvin

VP Manufacturing

James M. Wing

VP Optical Components

Richard Kwan

VP Operations

Susan Benz

VP Business Development

Markets

With AS9100 quality management system, Enterprise Resource Planning controls, online project management, and all-electronic build documentation and quality data recording, Clear Align is an ideal partner to design and manufacture systems for high reliability, rugged applications. Extensive technical experience and background in optics, imaging, lasers, and optoelectronics ensure a high level of confidence for military and aerospace requirements.

Imaging and Laser Systems for Defense

Examples of ISR Solutions

• Laser-based sensor and rangefinders
• Helmet-mounted displays
• Long-range surveillance systems
• Multispectral fusion imaging devices

Clear Align’s roots are firmly in the Defense market,and provides state-of-the-art Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) solutions used to detect threats and defend our nation. Whether you need high-precision optics or complete turn-key optical sensing systems for Defense and Homeland Security, Clear Align can deliver. Talk to Clear Align during any phase of your product’s lifecycle — concept, design, prototyping, volume production — and you will find a highly capable and talented engineering team willing and able to meet your objectives.

Design to Manufacture

The company boasts premier engineering in which each lead designer has over 50 years experience, coupled with state-of-the-art prototype and manufacturing facilities. Clear Align combines expertise in optical, mechanical, electric and software development in one supplier. Our Design-for-Manufacture approach enables ruggedized and cost-effective products to be delivered to market quickly. We specialize in integrating Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) solutions that provide both reliability and cost reduction.

Our well-defined product development cycle provides stage gates appropriate to the defense market for each step of development, including system requirements review (SRR), preliminary design review (PDR), critical design review (CDR), and manufacturing readiness reviews (MRR).

Facility

Our development and manufacturing facility boasts Class 100 to Class 10,000 assembly and coupling with precision down to 0.1 µm in an ISO 9001:2000 compliant environment. As an added bonus, Clear Align can fully qualify your devices in house to ensure they meet your stringent environmental and mechanical requirements. Our design and prototyping team is closely integrated with our precision manufacturing operations, making Clear Align the ideal location for complex system assembly.

Market Requirements

Clear Align understands the regulatory requirements of the defense market and provides experienced engineering expertise to complex and sensitive programs. The company has ITAR compliant production and a DCAA compliant operation to serve our defense clients.

Imaging and Laser Systems for Aerospace

Examples of Flight and Satellite Applications

• Fiber-optic components and systems for satellite applications
• Laser-based sensor
• Infrared Sensors for Flight Applications
• Multispectral Imaging Systems for Unmanned Vehicles
• Helmet-mounted displays

Clear Align’s roots are firmly in the Aerospace market, and provides state-of-the-art Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) solutions used to detect threats and defend our nation. The company in an established leader in space qualified fiber optic systems and components. Whether you need high-precision fiber optics or complete turn-key optical sensing systems for UAV applications, Clear Align can deliver. Talk to Clear Align during any phase of your product’s lifecycle — concept, design, prototyping, volume production — and you will find a highly capable and talented engineering team willing and able to meet your objectives.

Design to Manufacture

The company boasts premier engineering in which each lead designer has over 20 years experience, coupled with state-of-the-art prototype and manufacturing facilities. Clear Align combines expertise in optical, mechanical, electric and software development in one supplier. Our Design-for-Manufacture approach enables ruggedized and cost-effective products to be delivered to market quickly. We specialize in integrating Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) solutions that provide both reliability and cost reduction.

Our well-defined product development cycle provides stage gates appropriate to the aerospace market for each step of development, including system requirements review (SRR), preliminary design review (PDR), critical design review (CDR), and manufacturing readiness reviews (MRR).

Facility

Market Requirements

Clear Align understands the regulatory requirements of the aerospace market and provides engineering expertise on the more sensitive flight programs. ITAR compliant production and a DCAA compliant operation serve our aerospace clients.

A wide variety of off-the-shelf and pre-engineered solutions for lenses and systems in visible and infrared provides cost effective ways to address industrial imaging applications such as machine vision, security, and scientific applications.

Optical Design and Prototype

With the rapid integration of fiber optics and imaging technology, the commercial market has seen many changes. Many customers find themselves facing newly emerged applications without sufficient background in optical design and assembly to meet the market requirements. Technologies and innovations as varied as thermal imaging and fiber-optic detection enable our customers to manufacturing optical systems that were once considered impossible or improbable. Clear Align can help these customers overcome significant technical challenges to open pathways for meeting the demands of their marketplace.

Design to Manufacture

Facility

Our development and manufacturing facility boasts Class 100 to Class 10,000 assembly and coupling with a precision of 0.1 µm in an ISO 9001:2000 compliant environment. As an added bonus, Clear Align can fully qualify your device in house to ensure that it meets your stringent environmental and mechanical requirements. Our design and prototyping team is closely integrated with our precision manufacturing operations, making Clear Align the ideal location for complex system assembly.

Advanced Medical Solutions

Optical solutions solve many of today’s medical challenges. Our custom design to manufacturing services are well suited for the critical needs in medical imaging applications. We design and manufacture a wide variety of surgical and analysis tools that incorporate optoelectronics. Additionally, we can support you the FDA approval process with design analysis and environmental qualification services. Examples of products we support include sensors for robotic surgical tools, boroscopes, optical imagery systems in a variety of wavelengths from UV to SWIR for cancer detection, in-vivo sensor for surgical applications, and full medical detection systems delivering more advanced analysis. Additionally many of the leading medical device companies rely on our precision optical components for reliability and consistency.

Client Testimonials

Clear Align has been a volume manufacturer of optics and complex opto-electronic assemblies to Raytheon since 2004.

Program Manager

You have accomplished the nearly impossible in record time,under the duress of limited guidance … You all deserve every kudo possible for your contribution to the advancement of this technology and the possibilities that it opens up for our war-fighters.

Subcontract Manager

We would like to sincerely thank you for the extraordinary work done in support of our long range sensor suite.

Vice President

We utilize Clear Align for activities related to advance laser technology and optical testing. Their support resulted in efficient solutions to technical issues and their expertise allowed our team to incorporate advanced technologies we otherwise would not have been able to integrate into our products. Their technical and management teams were a pleasure to work with and were responsive to our cost and schedule needs. We look forward to continuing our association with Clear Align and gladly recommend their services to others.

Member of Technical Staff

All of the items that I ordered from Clear Align were received in a timely manner, the quality has been excellent” … “Clear Align’s personnel are very knowledgeable in optical fibers, optical sub-assemblies, and packaging of Planer Lighwave Circuits. All dealing with Clear Align proceed in a straightforward, responsive and courteous manner.

Electro-optic Engineer

We have been working with Clear Align for some time and has come to trust their technical capability and judgment.

Chief Technologist

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