Nextage Announces Strategic Partnership With Hammers to Advance Turnkey Avionics Solutions

By Brooke Owen
January 14, 2026

Nextage is pleased to announce a new technical partnership with the Hammers Company­ that will bring the Nextage Modular Computer (NMC) off the shelf, to you.

Rooted in the Mid-Atlantic, the Hammers Company­, or “Hammers” earned a glowing reputation from over 35 years of continued success developing real-time flight software for guidance & navigation, C&DH and NASA’s core flight software (cFS). After collaboration discussions between Nextage and Hammers began earlier this year, both organizations quickly aligned around the shared vision to create a turnkey computing and avionics solution that will revolutionize next-generation aerospace missions.

By combining the innovative Nextage Modular Computer (NMC) hardware with Hammers’ world-class flight software expertise, this partnership is set to transform the current hands-on approach required to implement the NMC–making it a true turnkey solution that organizations can seamlessly integrate into their designs. Together, the companies aim to provide mission teams with an elite-performance, low-cost computing and avionics system that is ready off-the-shelf.

Why the Nextage Modular Computer

Small-but-mighty, the NMC offers both serial- and parallel-processing power capable of supporting the advanced computing requirements of: multicore, user‐programmable data widths, relocatable code, incremental compiling, deterministic AI, and edge computing applications. It has been optimized for spacecraft that require high computational throughput within tight SWaP-C–size, weight, power, and cost–constraints.

The space industry as a whole increasingly demands computing architectures like the NMC that can handle:

• high data volume
• complex autonomy
• mixed workloads

The core objective of this partnership is to deliver a mission-ready, hardware/software package that reduces risk, shortens development timelines, and enables rapid deployment of advanced flight computing solutions–all while boasting low mass and energy requirements. By uniting Nextage’s hardware innovation with Hammers’ flight-software excellence, this partnership aims to deliver effective solutions to commercial, research, educational and government users.

Building a Turnkey Solution for Future Missions

Hands-on support from Nextage is currently required to guide customers through the complexities of the NMC software; but Nextage and Hammers are changing that by breaking down barriers, and increasing access to the multifaceted NMC technology through the joint offerings.

“Our goal is to provide a turnkey solution for use cases and missions that need an elite processing, low cost, computing/avionics system.” Bob Vernot, Vice President, Nextage

Vision alignment and complementary strengths position both companies to offer hardware and software optimized around the NMC architecture, creating a comprehensive turnkey product. Design engineers at Nextage will continue to lead on hardware innovation, while the Hammers team creates their version of ready-to-use NMC software in a tiered approach–maximizing compatibility with their existing software strengths to deliver effective solutions, faster.

Hammers will initially target the NMC’s serial-processing subsystem, mirroring their current flight-software toolchains and heritage architectures. After establishing baseline support, the Hammers team will expand their scope to include the NMC’s parallel-processing environment, which utilizes a proprietary Triune OS. By partnering, the companies will be able to rapidly produce flight-credible solutions for customers with tight timelines, while carving out long-term support channels for the NMC’s full feature set.

What Comes Next

As the partnership matures, both companies will reference each others’ products as its preferred flight-software and avionics platform provider, respectively. 

Customers will be able to purchase the NMC configured with baseline flight software and ready for mission-specific programming, streamlining the implementation of elite processing power for your project. 

Questions or inquiries about the NMC? Contact us: nextage-llc.com/contact

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About Nextage

Based in Maryland, Nextage has provided trusted aerospace engineering services for over ten years. We specialize in avionics and aerospace systems engineering, electrical engineering, software design, and automated test system development. Our team of dedicated engineers proudly support global missions, bringing integrity and technical excellence to every project.

In the last few years, our portfolio has expanded to include a suite of products: NextMAG magnetometer, Nextage Modular Computer, Nextage Test Unit, and the Compact Instrument Purge System. Our solutions deliver accuracy, quality, and efficiency to clients around the world.

About the Hammers Company

the Hammers Company is a Maryland-based, woman-owned small business with over 35 years of experience providing aerospace software and related services for more than 100 major satellite programs. Hammers software portfolio provides ground software mission operations products for command and control (GALAXY), trending and analysis (STARS), operations automation (MERCURY), command uplink encryption and telemetry downlink decryption (SECRYT) and operations team planning (tACT). the Hammers Company’s spacecraft dynamic simulator (VirtualSat) supports flight software development, test, integration and sustaining engineering with orbit dynamics, actuator and sensor models allowing software developers, testers, and control analysts unlimited options in configuring simulation environments to meet mission specific needs.