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Also during this time, SCOA assisted in the marketing and
sales of environmental control life-support systems for the
Space Shuttle. The company retained contracts for the development of environmental control, thermal control and life
support systems, with hardware consisting of subsystems
for portable water processors and waste management systems. Products also included assemblies and components
such as fans, heat exchangers, pumps, valves and other
mechanical and electrical components.
As the years passed, the company continued to grow,
increasing demand for more products as SCOA's aerospace
and defense product range expanded, resulting in two
risk-revenue sharing programs for the ERJ-170-190 jet airliner program as well as the Boeing 787, and an alliance to
supply key systems to the Mitsubishi Regional Jet program,
now called Mitsubishi Space Jet.
In the 1980s, SCOA and SC began representative agreements with various companies, in the area of onboard

avionics in particular. One of the functions of our company is partnering, and SCOA and SC have worked to locate
the right partner in Japan for a U.S. principal entity, and
arranged a number of license agreements between that
principal and a Japanese partner. From that agreement,
SCOA has exported "knock down" kits (kits containing
the parts needed to assemble a product) to a Japanese
partner through SC. This business model experienced
acceptance and appreciation across the board among
Japan defense companies, and thusly became known as
the "Sumitomo model". This strategic approach has differentiated SCOA from its competitors, and continues to
set us apart. In the 1990s and into the 2000s, SCOA and
SC have focused defense programs business on the area
of Command, Control, Communication and Intelligence
(C3I). C3I was the game changer - as was digital transformation in the defense world - involving the mining
and use of digital data through network computing.

Pictured: Boeing 787 exterior and interior (top) and Mitsubishi Space Jet

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