GORCA began providing professional engineering services to aerospace Customers in 1988. Key staff and associates were initially recruited from the best management and technical talent from more than 400 professionals from RCA’s aerospace divisions who took the RCA early retirement option after the GE acquisition of RCA. GORCA’s capabilities have continued to grow, with key talent additions occurring after GE’s sale of its aerospace group to Martin Marietta, and then Martin Marietta’s merger with Lockheed. As the aerospace market grew in the 1990s, GORCA’s business expanded and its reputation spread, with key professionals from other organizations and backgrounds joining its staff of Associates. Today GS&C’s staff of employees and Associates includes highly skilled people from both aerospace prime contractors and satellite/system operators.

By 1997, GORCA was providing not only aerospace support and consulting services, but through the application of aerospace technologies and management techniques, had also ventured into non-aerospace efforts such as medical imaging systems. In order to pursue each of these varied opportunities, GORCA restructured in 1998 into two independent companies, with GORCA Space & Communications focusing on space-based services, and GORCA Technologies focusing on non-space related efforts.

GORCA Space and Communications today consists of a highly skilled staff of employees and Associates, with the ability to provide its Customers with virtually any aerospace or telecommunications expertise in space, ground or network system development, design or production. Several key advantages to GS&C center around its: