Nadcap

Originally an acronym (National Aeronautical and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program), Nadcap is now the global brand name of a system developed in the early 1990s by US-based Aerospace Prime Contractors who convened to co-operate in developing a system of industry wide ‘standards’ to control the activities of providers of ‘Special Processes’ to aerospace and related industries. Run by the Performance Review Institute (PRI), which is part of SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers), their mission is to “provide international, unbiased, independent manufacturing process and product assessments and certification services for the purpose of adding value, reducing total cost, and facilitating relationships between primes and suppliers.”