Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company is the global leader in precision energetics systems used in minefield and obstacle breaching, military demolition, vehicle protection, tactical weapons, and space & strategic systems.

Vision for Growth

To be the pre-eminent, global provider of reliable energetic solutions. Customers value our competent, high-spirited workforce whose unrelenting drive for best product quality, technical excellence and on time delivery shows in everything we do.

Unparalleled Experience 

Solutions require innovation. In 1836, William Bickford's invention of a superior initiator for mining explosives, safety fuse, heralded not only a safer era for miners, but the formation of the Ensign-Bickford company. From this single but significant milestone, EBA&D has developed global industry influence and extensive capabilities facilities in five locations; Graham, KY, Moorpark, CA, Tempe, AZ, Sterling, CT and our headquarters in Simsbury, CT.

Ideas, insights and engineering breakthroughs have made us manufacturers of the most reliable, precise aerospace and defense energetic solutions available. Our history of providing high-reliability solutions to these markets is unequaled, as is our commitment to meeting cost, delivery, reliability, environmental, and performance requirements. No other company can match the range of innovative energetic solutions that we've manufactured; this breadth of energetics application and technology is the foundation on which our success—and yours—rests.