A flashlight caused nearly $4 million in damage to an F-35 engine.

In 2023, a handheld flashlight was left inside the engine inlet of an F-35A at Luke Air Force Base. During a ground run, it was ingested into the engine, causing nearly $4 million in damage.

That is the reality of critical physical operations: small misses become expensive fast.

America is reindustrializing. Aerospace, defense, robotics, energy, space, data centers, and advanced manufacturing are moving faster than ever. But the physical layer of operations is still too manual.

Tools move.
Parts move.
Work-in-progress moves.
Equipment moves.
People hand things off.
Records get updated late, incorrectly, or not at all.

That is why we are building ItsWare.

ItsWare turns physical activity into trusted operational records. We help critical industries track tools, parts, WIP, equipment, custody, calibration status, and exceptions across complex facilities, then connect that data into the systems teams already use.

This is not just inventory.

It is the operational backbone for the factory floor.

We have already seen ItsWare identify an estimated $7,000 per month in recoverable search-time savings in an aerospace supplier environment. But the bigger value is trust: knowing where critical assets are, who had them, what moved, and whether the operation is audit-ready.

As America rebuilds its industrial base, the companies moving fastest will need more than labor, capital, and machines.

They will need visibility into the physical work itself.

That is what ItsWare is building.