Everything between a supplier lead and a qualified, supplied component.
Kestrel's capability set covers the full path from identifying a candidate manufacturer to sustaining production supply — technical, commercial, and documentation work that a customer would otherwise have to do supplier-by-supplier, on their own. The same process serves government programs and commercial industry.
How Kestrel's work is organized.
The capability areas below are applied across three complementary lanes. Most engagements start in one and expand into another.
NDAA-aligned sourcing and procurement support for public-sector programs.
Supplier discovery, alternate-source development, supply-chain analysis, RFQ management, supplier qualification, country-of-origin analysis, sub-tier visibility, supplier risk assessment, logistics and supply-chain consulting, and program support — for federal agencies, DoD and DLA, state and local government, and government prime contractors. Government & Defense →
Locating and qualifying manufacturers for commercial hardware programs.
Manufacturer identification, supplier screening, RFQ coordination, quote comparison, MOQ and lead-time analysis, production capacity and tooling review, sample coordination, quality-system and certification review, traceability review, and ongoing supplier management. Commercial Sourcing →
Qualified sources for specific components.
Kestrel identifies and coordinates qualified manufacturing and supply sources based on customer-specific requirements — interconnect and cable, RF, precision machined parts, hardware, seals and gaskets, motors and ESCs, and electronic/electromechanical components. Component categories →
Eight capability areas, one accountable interface.
Finding manufacturers that actually match the requirement.
Candidate manufacturer research across South Korea and other allied manufacturing markets, screened against your technical requirement before any introduction is made.
Translating engineering requirements into a sourceable package.
Converting specifications, drawings, and application requirements into the technical package a manufacturer needs to quote accurately — and interpreting their response back into terms your engineering team can evaluate.
Screening capability before it becomes your problem.
Reviewing manufacturing capability, production capacity, quality systems, and documentation practices so a supplier is vetted before it's relied upon.
Country-of-origin and BOM-level visibility, honestly reported.
Investigating country of origin and, where available, bill-of-materials provenance — including flagging Chinese-origin subcomponents (magnets, bearings, semiconductors, raw materials) rather than assuming compliance from final assembly location alone. Screening includes checking against NDAA Section 889 covered entities (Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision, Dahua, and their subsidiaries), not just country-of-origin at the finished-good level.
One RFQ process, not five parallel email threads.
Preparing and issuing RFQs, normalizing quotes across candidate suppliers, and negotiating MOQ, lead time, and commercial terms on your behalf.
Getting real hardware into your engineers' hands.
Coordinating prototype and sample production, shipment, and the documentation needed to support your engineering evaluation.
From qualified sample to sustained production supply.
Production planning, purchase execution, and commercial supply once a component has cleared your qualification process.
Staying qualified after the first order ships.
Ongoing supplier relationship management, alternate-source development, and monitoring so a single-source risk doesn't quietly become a program risk.
Scoped to the requirement in front of you.
Every engagement starts with a specific component requirement — not a general retainer. Kestrel scopes work to what's actually needed: a one-time alternate-source search, a full qualification project, or ongoing production supply.
What we won't do
We won't hand you a supplier's contact information and call it done. We won't claim a component is "compliant" or "China-free" without doing the provenance work to support that claim. And we won't promise timelines or pricing before we've actually done the technical and commercial legwork.
Tell us what you're trying to source.
Submit a component requirement and we'll follow up on which of these capabilities apply to your specific case.