Cobalt Horizons Corporation is a tightly integrated team of specialized, highly experienced engineers providing contract consulting services (we're not a staffing agency), delivering elegant solutions to technical problems, for defense, space, medical device, cleantech, and related industries in the electro-mechanical domain.
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery
French Pilot, Writer, and Author (1900 - 1944)
Cobalt Horizons Corporation is a Veterans Administration Diversity Certified Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and a KellyOCG Diversity Certified WORKSENSE™ Service Provider with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Professionals (GDTP) Senior Certified by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
With over 160 years combined industry experience our team provides advanced engineering support across the entire program and product life-cycle including: systems engineering concept definition and requirements management, data science engineering, supplier development engineering,, technical workforce development, operations support, process improvement, quality assurance, root cause failure analysis, technology development, test development, interdisciplinary systems and configurations analyses and trade studies, manufacturing process and tooling improvement, design review support, and technical documentation support including industry standards compliant drafting reviews, tolerance stack analysis, and functional tolerancing (GD&T) best practices.
Our staff includes a retired US Air Force Colonel, US Army Combat Veteran, a Caltech Physicist, ASME Committee voting member, California Certified Professional Engineer (PE), Chief Dimensional Inspector, Certified SolidWorks Expert (CSWE), and User Experience (UX) Designer with degrees in Aerospace, Mechanical, Manufacturing, and Industrial Management Engineering (strong Quality background).
The principal of Cobalt Horizons Corporation is an ASME Y14.5.2 Senior-Certified Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Professional (GDTP S09-8163). California hosts fewer than thirty such certificate holders. This very rare professional certification independently demonstrates proficiency in the understanding and application of the geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) principles expressed in ASME's widely-applied Y14.5 Standard. These principles form an essential element for the complex design language of electro-mechanical engineering serving as the foundation for tolerance analysis and determining optimum limits of allowable variation ensuring acceptable performance.
Engineering workforce multiplier enhancing the team's long-term capabilities
Providing standards-based interpretation and technical solutions for engineers, inspectors, and suppliers
Working shoulder to shoulder with the organic workforce solving today's specific challenges while preventing future issues
Training, coaching, and mentoring - passing along tools and techniques to engage the opportunities of tomorrow
Easy to contract with; available to support locally onsite, remotely (telecommute), full-time, part-time via Statement of Work (SOW) or with retainer
Enhanced mechanical dimensioning schemes increasing acceptability of usable components while ensuring the rejection of items unsuitable for the intended application
Technical requirements management - development, tailoring, and verification
Standards-based engineering specification development improving interpretation, eliminating ambiguity, and accurately conveying design intent while reducing errors and omissions
Complete, unambiguous material requirements definition avoiding downstream issues during verification
Qualification testing technical liaison / management
Improved producibility though design, process, and cost analysis methodologies
Principal Design Engineer: Industrial Gas Turbine Engine
Medical Device Reliability Engineer: Cardiac Ablation RF Generator
Project Engineer: Aerospace Connector and Cable Assembly
Medical Device Quality Engineer: Cardiac Ablation Catheter
Ordnance Manufacturing Engineer: MDA Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV)
Reliability Engineer: Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (STUAS)
Engineering Manager: Excimer Laser CAD
Manufacturing Engineer: Cable Assembly and Wire Harness
Program Manager: USAF B-2A Bomber Reliability Engineering
Base Commander: USAF Reserve, Los Angeles AFB
Engineering Manager: Specialty Engineering
Project Engineer: Permaswage Hydraulic Components
Engineering Manager: Systems Reliability
Systems Engineer: US Navy Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) X-47B
Reliability Engineer: Lethal Miniature Aerial Munition System (LMAMS)
Aerospace Engineer: Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) Active Array and Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) Payload / Ku-Band Reflector
Mechanical Engineer: Aircraft Nacelle
Ordnance Mechanical Engineer: DCMA Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Thermally Initiated Venting System (TIVS)
J Matthew "Matt" Gaskill
President / CEO
eMail: gaskillCobaltHorizons.com
Phone: 562.746.9800