Aerospace, Defense, Architecture, and Optics Technologies | Glass Materials Technologies | Corning

For decades, Corning has supported the aerospace and defense industries with the latest technologies to explore and monitor outer space and the Earth itself. These draw on our world-leading, broad expertise in materials science and optics. We’ve worked with customers on some of their toughest challenges, including: high-purity fused silica windows for all of the manned spacecraft in U.S. history, durable and heat-resistant missile nose cones for the U.S. military, and glass at the heart of telescopes and photographic systems. 

Today’s most striking designs have one thing in common: Glass. More and more, designers are embracing glass for its beauty, clean lines, and versatility. Sleek, tough glass is also the perfect substrate for high-tech coatings that react to light and sound, as well as to support sensors and semiconductors. With our expertise in research, materials, and processing, we can provide many options to our architecture and design customers for many phases of their projects. Corning continues to offer advantaged materials in this space, and as display technologies advance, our capabilities are expanding to meet their evolving requirements.

Corning’s diverse advanced optics portfolio reflects our deep understanding of the properties of light, its interaction with matter, and the instruments used to detect it. For decades, we have been a trusted optics collaborator with leaders in a wide range of markets, including aerospace and defense, semiconductor materials and optics, telecommunications, and more. We offer a diverse set of optics solutions to full complex systems. Customer collaboration is the hallmark of our operations.