G & H Rated in Top 50 Aerospace Electronics Suppliers
A little-known Camarillo G & H Technology Inc., has been ranked by a trade publication among the nation’s top 50 aerospace electronics suppliers.
G & H, which has 300 employees at its plant adjoining Camarillo Airport, was ranked 34th by Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine in a group headed by such giants as AlliedSignal Aerospace, Texas Instruments, Unisys, Teledyne, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola.
G & H derives $25 million of its $40 million in annual sales from aerospace electronics, turning out connectors, cable assemblies, shielding and drive shafts for defense and commercial space satellites and such U. S. fighter planes as the F-22 and F/A-18.
Ordinarily, the Camarillo company’s relatively modest defense business wouldn’t place it so high on a list studded with multibillion-dollar names. But the magazine limited its top 50 mostly to subcontractors, ruling out Hughes Electronics, Litton Industries, Martin Marietta, Raytheon and Rockwell International, among others.
“We’re honored to be recognized anyway,” G & H spokesman Tom Moran said. “We’re doing some exciting things, and we expect our business to grow along with electronics in general.”
Among projects the firm is working on, Moran listed Space Station Alpha, the Orbcomm communications constellation and a new helmet-mounted display system for aircraft pilots.
Founded in Santa Monica in 1946, G & H established a branch plant in Camarillo in the mid-1980s. At the time, the firm was a subsidiary of Cincinnati-based Penn Central Corp.
A group headed by Thomas C. Cleary, G & H’s current chairman and chief executive, purchased the unit and took it private in December, 1992. Last year, the Santa Monica plant was closed and its work absorbed into the Camarillo facility.
