Space

We are fast-tracking program execution as a mission integrator

Integrating for mission success

The space domain is rapidly evolving with commercial innovations and new partners. As a government technology integrator with strong commercial partnerships, SAIC is positioned to tie together the different stakeholders and technical disciplines required for mission success. Our expertise spans development, engineering, launch and operations for civilian, defense and intelligence space missions.

We are rewriting space mission integration

Accelerating Space Capabilities

Space systems require a broad spectrum of technologies and capabilities, including commercial ones. Be it a mission for space traffic management, hypersonic threat defense or climate change mitigation, we are embedded in development lifecycles with our customers, so they benefit from our insights and commercial partner integration at the root of complex challenges.

Our solutions and services span the program lifecycle

Systems Engineering & Integration

Digital Engineering

Modeling, Simulation & Analysis

Safety & Mission Assurance

Prototype Development

Mission Systems

Command and Control

Enterprise IT

Cyber

Data and Artificial Intelligence

Early In-Orbit Test and Evaluation

Launch

Engineering and Integration

Development

Operations

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING & INTEGRATION

SAIC is the lead systems integrator for the U.S. Space Force on next-generation command-and-control systems. Our space domain experts leverage SAIC’s systems engineering resources and open architecture approach to evolve systems for technology and solution integrations from nontraditional providers. Among our work, we provide integration assistance for ground system prototyping and pathfinding efforts.

Digital Engineering

Our digital engineering solutions and services accelerate systems development, engineering and manufacturing while improving system quality. We are leading the way in applying digital engineering's interconnected modeling, simulation, analytics, visualization and collaboration capabilities to accelerate systems development. As our space customers move to more complex architectures, we are supporting their evolution from traditionally systems engineering methods to model-based digital engineering within unified data environments and stakeholder ecosystems. Read more on our Digital Engineering page

Modeling, Simulation & analysis

We have services that examine scenarios and produce insights up to congressional-level reports. We have helped analyze threats such as hypersonic weapons and advised on defensive operations. Space stakeholders come to us for fast and accurate mission analyses that are instrumental to their decisions on operations support such as missile warning and defense. SAIC pioneered a responsive analysis approach that leverages our modeling, simulation and analysis tools, which range from detailed physics and engineering phenomenon modeling to operational campaign effectiveness evaluation.

Modal Safety and Mission Assurance

We have experts who assess the safety, reliability, risks and hazards of defense missions and human spaceflight programs. SAIC performs safety and mission assurance for NASA, the Department of Defense and the intelligence community’s spacecraft and payloads. At Johnson Space Center, we delivered real-time operational support throughout all phases of the Artemis I mission, evaluating flight products to identify potential impacts to safety requirements. We perform system software assurance for NASA’s Independent Verification and Validation Program. By applying agile concepts to verification and validation work, we quickly assess systems that are critical to preserving human life and valuable assets in space.

Mission systems

We are executing on the Multi-Mission Satellite Operation Center’s command-and-control ground architecture. SAIC is at the forefront of architecture development, delivering open-architecture, cloud-enabled command-and-control systems. We are integrating complex, resilient enterprises at the speed that’s required to support agile satellite systems development and deployment.

Prototype development

We have supported development of NASA's OSAM-1 on-orbit satellite-refueling robot. We also have a partnership with Rogue Space Systems for on-orbit services. SAIC has helped NASA design, test, integrate and assemble the “robot with a toolbox,” whose job will be refueling on-orbit satellites to extend their service lives. Our support in the groundbreaking OSAM-1 mission encompasses the robot’s autonomous docking mechanism, robotics, ground systems, software and hardware.

Command and Control

SAIC provides lead support to U.S. Air Force for its enterprise ground services and systems. We are also the prime industry partner for U.S. Space Force in managing Space-Track.org. We support the command-and-control operations of U.S. Air Force and space organizations across the domain. We are designing the systems of the future for our customers who are facing a contested as well as congested space. Learn how we're improving Command and Control through JADC2. See how we're solving space traffic management.

Enterprise IT

SAIC is a leading provider of cloud and other enterprise solutions for space organizations. We are the prime industry partner on Cloud One, the Department of Defense’s premier cloud solution. In civilian space, we have supported NASA's local area network management at all agency centers. We have integrated high-quality business apps, managed cloud-based apps, supported mission apps and continuously identified software acceleration opportunities.

Cyber

SAIC performs vulnerability assessments for systems across intelligence community, civilian and defense space. SAIC is helping protect systems and keeping them operational amid constant threats and cyberattacks. Adversarial nations are growing in number and sophistication, so space organizations and their assets are facing ever-increasing risk of being attacked or subverted. Learn more about our Cybersecurity solution.

Data and Artificial Intelligence

We apply innovative data science methodologies and AI to produce machine learning-driven analytics for new-level insights. SAIC helps organizations gain better insights and domain awareness by improving their data and analysis strategies and operations. Our data scientists apply methods and ground-level tactics to enable data convergence and improve organization of our customers’ datasets that pave the way for AI-powered analytics to augment human decision-making.

Early In-Orbit Test and Evaluation

SAIC conducts initial operations on GPS systems before our customers put them into operational use. SAIC supports GPS delivery and the transition to operations for the intelligence community, Department of Defense and NASA. We perform final early in-orbit test and evaluation to make sure that satellites meet operational requirements and were not damaged during launch and ascent into space.

Launch

SAIC has assisted in hundreds of successful space launches. Having supported hundreds of successful launches, SAIC’s space teams have been instrumental in a host of space-industry firsts. This includes the Department of Defense’s multi-manifest Falcon Heavy, a heavy-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured by SpaceX. The rocket has the highest payload capacity of all currently operating launch vehicles.

OUR CAPABILITIES

Our legacy in space continues today

SAIC’s space experience stretches back to the 1950s. We remain at the forefront of national imperatives to explore, secure and leverage space. Our work facilitates future unmanned spacecraft, earth science data collection and all-domain warfighting, to name a few. SAIC is helping ensure national security and the future of humanity. Hover or tap on each card

Civilian

Intelligence Community

Defense

Our systems integration expertise, engineering heritage and mission intimacy enhance space traffic management as well as the Lunar Gateway's development.

Civilian

We are leading the way in digital transformation for the IC. We are a trusted partner, making sure that the U.S. is prepared for any space threat to national security.

Intelligence Community

Defense

We are enabling faster systems development, acquisition and delivery timelines amidst a contested space domain, enabling customers to mitigate threats.

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