It started in the textile business with the development of unique knitted materials for specialty undergarments and over time evolved to making aerospace and communications related products.

With the physiologic principles of blackout during high G-forces worked out by Wood and colleagues,[4][5][6] the G-activated single pressure suit utilizing air bladders, first released in 1943 with improvements to follow in 1944, provided what was considered to be a significant advantage for the Allied forces.

[citation needed] This was adopted for the Space Shuttle program, replacing DCC's (partial pressure) S1032 Launch Entry Suit (LES).

Throughout the 1990s, DCC conducted engineering design and development activities for the USAF Advanced Technology Anti-G Suit (ATAGS) program.

In 2010, they designed, developed, and fabricated pressure suits utilized on the Red Bull Stratos project, with which Felix Baumgartner performed a record-breaking free fall from a high-altitude balloon on 14 October 2012.