ICS acquires Modern Instrument Company, expanding into aerospace services
What's the deal? Industrial Control Solutions (ICS)Dealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has acquired the business of Modern Instrument CompanyDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a Long Beach-based provider of temperature uniformity surveys, equipment validation, and ISO-accredited calibration services for aerospace and industrial manufacturers. The transaction closed on July 31, 2026. ICS designs and manufactures flow, level, pressure, and temperature sensing devices, and is a portfolio company of Houston private equity firm LDR Partners LPDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →.
Who's Modern? For nearly four decades, Modern has served aerospace manufacturers and heat-treatment facilities across the Southern California aerospace corridor from its Long Beach facility. It is ISO/IEC 17025 accredited through Perry Johnson Laboratory AccreditationDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and performs all work to AMS 2750, the governing aerospace pyrometry specification.
Its services include temperature uniformity surveys, system accuracy tests, equipment validation, instrumentation calibration, and audit-ready compliance documentation for NADCAP-regulated customers — many served for more than two decades.
What's the endgame? The deal is the first step in a broader push by ICS into specialized services that complement its manufacturing operations. Modern's work extends the temperature measurement capabilities ICS added through its October 2025 acquisition of Duro-Sense CorporationDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, whose thermocouples operate inside the ovens and furnaces Modern validates.
Together, the two allow ICS to cover the full temperature compliance chain, from certified sensors to the surveys, calibrations, and documentation that keep operations audit-ready. The companies serve overlapping aerospace customers in the same region.
What they're saying: "This acquisition launches our services capability, strengthens the West Coast presence we established with Duro-Sense, and expands the range of specialized services we can deliver to customers nationwide as the ICS platform grows," said Matt Powers, chief executive officer of ICS.
Jasmine Smith, co-owner and outgoing chief executive officer of Modern, will continue with ICS as a strategic advisor. "ICS understands compliance-critical work, values our people, and brings the resources to serve the customers," she said.
The signal: The deal shows private equity-backed industrial platforms bundling manufacturing with adjacent compliance services to capture more of the aerospace supply chain. By pairing certified sensors with validation and audit documentation, ICS is positioning itself as a single stop for regulated temperature work.
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