About

Come be part of the 'Built In' mission.

About Canopy Aerospace & Defense

We deliver specialized materials and components that enable platforms to perform faster, cooler, and quieter. From design through scalable production and reusability, we integrate solutions that adapt and evolve with our customers’ most pressing challenges. We're a seamless extension of our partners — driving innovation, reliability, and mission success together.

Mission

Our mission is to engineer materials and solutions for exceptional performance — owning the full value chain from concept to sustainment, delivering unmatched capabilities in the world’s most demanding environments.

Canopy Aerospace & Defense is redefining the future of advanced materials.

Engineered to solve the most complex performance challenges in defense, commercial, and governmental aerospace. Canopy delivers highly specialized materials and components with exceptional thermal protection, absorption, and signal reduction characteristics. These technologies enable platforms to move faster, cooler, and quieter – from the ocean’s depths, to the vast frontier of space.

Assembled from two world-class manufacturers, Hera Technologies and MSM Industries, Canopy is more than a supplier—it’s a vertically integrated platform with a built-in R&D Center of Excellence. This innovation engine spans use case analysis, design, rapid prototyping, and scalable production, delivering both speed and precision. Agile by design, Canopy evolves alongside the problems it solves.

At its core, Canopy is committed to systems thinking and forward innovation – not just one-off products, but integrated solutions that embed directly into customer missions. With deep domain expertise and responsive manufacturing, Canopy acts as a seamless extension of its partners, filling critical gaps across long manufacturing chains and accelerating progress in the aerospace and defense sectors.

Canopy doesn’t just build at the speed of innovation – we build certainty for those who dare to reach beyond.