Aerospace & Defense
Our aerospace and defense consulting professionals help companies soar by providing the insight and guidance needed to navigate complexity and achieve lasting success.
Guiding your mission
Whether you’re focused on commercial aviation, space or defense, you operate in a dynamic landscape where precision, efficiency and compliance are critical. Our industry-specialized professionals work in close orbit with national and global companies and are here to navigate the continuing changes and market disruption in aerospace and defense (A&D). Clients rely on us to manage the complexities of working with the federal government and the Department of Defense, deliver complex audit services, recommend tax strategies and provide insights to drive success.
Aerospace and defense consulting solutions
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification
With the goal of protecting federal contract information (FCI) and controlled unclassified information (CUI) within the Department of Defense (DOD) contracting community, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) became a requirement for participation in many DOD requests relevant to aerospace and defense government contractors. Baker Tilly is a candidate CMMC Third-Party Assessor Organization (C3PAO), ready to help you achieve CMMC readiness or official assessment objectives.
Digital Solutions
From advanced machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to implementing enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions like IFS and Deltek, our aerospace and defense industry specialists help strengthen your company’s core processes and improve performance to achieve your business goals.
Government Contract Solutions
Our depth of experience allows us to provide fresh ideas and practical counseling on a wide range of cost, pricing and compliance matters to aerospace and defense clients. We position government contractors for success in the federal marketplace by helping address unique and complex regulatory requirements, oversight burdens and competitive pressures.
Specialty Tax
The unique tax needs of the aerospace and defense industry require diverse tax specialists equipped to help businesses identify, document and sustain federal and state tax credits through a comprehensive understanding of their business operations. Our tax team is ready to help with research and development credits, Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) tax credits, federal tax, international tax and more.
Unlock and optimize your funding potential

Government Funding & Compliance Advisory
Discover available creditsNavigating your aerospace and defense journey
We help develop and execute client-specific strategies to achieve immediate impact, competitive advantage and sustained growth platforms for commercial A&D manufacturers and service providers, defense prime contractors and subcontractors globally. Baker Tilly understands the barriers stopping the growth of the aerospace and defense industry, such as skilled workforce gaps and complex supply chain disruptions, leading to a need for substitutes for missing components.