Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company (EBA&D), headquartered in Simsbury, Connecticut (CT), is a global leader of precision energetics systems and innovative explosive and non-explosive solutions.
Whether you are in need of a minefield breaching system, a specialized demolition kit or a requirement for system initiation or flight termination, EBA&D precision products and systems are Right for Your Mission!
To improve people’s lives
By providing technologies that help put people and satellites in space, and protecting the armed service men and women around the world as they protect their freedoms at home, Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company (EBA&D) continuously seeks to improve the lives of people.
EBAD seeks to be a leader in mission critical hardware and services.
EBAD delivers mission critical hardware and system solutions, integrating complementary technologies and building partnerships to broaden their markets, add value and grow.
Solutions require innovation. In 1836, William Bickford's invention of a superior initiator for mining explosives, safety fuse, heralded not only a safer era for miners, but the formation of the Ensign-Bickford company. From this single but significant milestone, EBAD has developed global industry influence and extensive capabilities facilities in three locations; Graham, KY, Moorpark, CA and their headquarters in Simsbury, CT.
Ideas, insights and engineering breakthroughs have made them manufacturers of the most reliable, precise aerospace and defense energetic solutions available. Their history of providing high-reliability solutions to these markets is unequaled, as is their commitment to meeting cost, delivery, reliability, environmental, and performance requirements. No other company can match the range of innovative energetic solutions that they have manufactured; this breadth of energetics application and technology is the foundation on which their success—and yours—rests.