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SAIC is today’s crucial space mission integrator, providing systems development, integration and engineering in addition to launch and operational services for our nation’s civilian, defense and intelligence community customers. In a rapidly evolving domain with commercial innovations and new partners, it takes an experienced and tech-savvy mission integrator to tie together all space stakeholders and disciplines for mission success — be it space traffic management, hypersonic defense or climate change mitigation.
Space requires a mission integrator that moves with decisive speed
The Fast Track
Putting Space On
SPACE
Home > Who We Serve > Space
Development of integrated space systems requires a broad spectrum of capabilities and innovations — including commercial ones. SAIC has a long history of partnership with civilian, defense and intelligence community space organizations on complex missions and major U.S. space programs. We’re embedded in development lifecycles with our customers so they benefit from our expertise at the root of complex integration issues.
SAIC is the lead systems integrator for the U.S. Space Force and is integrating next-generation command-and-control systems for defense space.
Systems Engineering & Integration
SAIC’s digital engineering technologies, tools and services accelerate space systems development and manufacturing while improving their quality and mission-readiness.
Digital Engineering
Our solutions deliver critical space domain insights all the way up to congressional-level reports. We’ve helped analyze threats such as hypersonic weapons and advised on defensive solutions and operational decision-making.
Modeling, Simulation and Analysis
SAIC engineers and analysts assess the safety, reliability, risks and hazards of spacecraft and operations for Department of Defense space missions and human spaceflight programs like the International Space Station, the Commercial Crew Program and the Artemis Program.
Safety and Mission Assurance
Operations
Training
Development
Engineering & Integration
SAIC performs software engineering as well as software assurance for all of NASA’s human spaceflight programs.
Software Development
We are supporting NASA in the development of
the On-orbit Service, Assembly and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) satellite-refueling robot.
Prototype Development
We are executing the Multi-Mission Satellite Operation Center’s C2 ground system architecture.
Mission Systems
Operations
Training
Development
Engineering & Integration
SAIC is innovating space mission training with our virtual reality-based simulation environments.
Virtual Environments
Our training platform produces analytical insights that result in greater training and mission efficacy.
AI-Enhanced Learning
SAIC supports live astronaut training and simulation for NASA in order to keep human lives safe in space.
Live Training
Operations
Training
Development
Engineering & Integration
SAIC provides lead support to the U.S. Air Force for its enterprise ground services and systems. SAIC is also the prime contractor for the U.S. Space Force in managing Space-Track.org.
Command and Control
SAIC is a leading provider of IT, cloud and enterprise solutions for space organizations. We are the prime contractor on the Department of Defense’s premier cloud solution.
Enterprise IT
SAIC is performing vulnerability assessments for crucial space systems across intelligence community, civilian and defense space.
Cyber
We apply industry-leading data science methodologies and AI/ML technologies to produce advanced analytical insights in space missions.
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
SAIC conducts initial operations on GPS systems before our customers put them into operational use.
Early In-Orbit Test and Evaluation
SAIC has assisted in hundreds of successful space launches, including 40 in the past year.
Launch
Operations
Training
Development
Engineering & Integration
LEARN HOW WE PROVIDE SYSTEMS INTEGRATION ON SMALLSATS
Learn how we quantitatively assess systems readiness
Learn how our systems engineers are industry thought leaders
Our space domain experts leverage SAIC’s systems engineering capabilities and an open architecture approach to agilely evolve customers to more resilient systems architectures that can integrate technologies and solutions from nontraditional providers. We provide integration assistance for ground system prototyping and pathfinding efforts.
Systems Engineering & Integration
Learn more at our digital engineering page
We are leading the way in applying digital engineering — interconnected modeling, simulation, analytics, visualization and collaboration — capabilities to accelerate the design and development of systems architectures as well as systems themselves. As our space customers move to more resilient architectures, we are supporting their evolution from traditionally manual systems engineering processes to digital engineering and helping them connect with their stakeholders to form digital engineering ecosystems.
Digital Engineering
Learn about our Quick-Response Modeling solution
Read how we apply high performance computing to solve challenges
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.
Modeling, Simulation and Analysis
Learn more about Agile INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION
THE 5 ELEMENTS FOR ASSURING SAFE HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT
SAIC performs safety and mission assurance for NASA, the Department of Defense and the intelligence community’s spacecraft and payloads. For example, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, we delivered real-time operational support throughout all phases of the Artemis 1 mission, evaluating flight products to identify potential impacts to safety requirements. We also perform 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.
Safety and Mission Assurance
Learn more about our performance-based logistics work for DLA
Our logistics management software plus decades of experience in sustaining military equipment mean we can manage supply chains that ensure uninterrupted deliveries while reducing your inventory ownership. Our support to the Defense Logistics Agency has garnered awards for outstanding quality and delivery performance.
Logistics
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE SERVICES
We ensure that software for space operations works and behaves as designed. We also help our customers move to cloud and internet-of-things environments as well as DevSecOps development chains, as they migrate their legacy mission and administrative applications.
Software Development
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR OSAM-1 SUPPORT
SAIC is helping the space agency design, test, integrate and assemble the “robot with a toolbox,” whose job will be refueling on-orbit satellites not designed to be service. Our support in the groundbreaking OSAM-1 mission encompasses the robot’s autonomous docking mechanism, robotics, ground systems, software and hardware.
Prototype Development
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.
Mission Systems
Click on each of the four videos to explore our virtual training offerings for simulating missions, exploring conceptual and future assets, interacting with in-orbit assets, and analyzing design constellations
MISSION TRAINING
Future and Conceptual Assets
Satellite Gantry
Design Constellations
Our customers use these environments to train individuals or entire groups in life-like, immersive simulations of operations centers, for example. Other visualizations feature walk-arounds for the Space Systems Command. The realism of our virtual environments results from our integration of augmented reality, virtual reality, data visualization and gaming technologies.
Virtual Environments
Virtual Training Is No Longer Sci-Fi Fantasy
Learn more about our virtual simulation support for USAF
SAIC has markedly accelerated aviator readiness in the U.S. Air Force’s Pilot Training Next program through our analytics-based training. Now, we are ready to apply proven, successful techniques to space training using our analytics tools and tailorable training platform.
AI-Enhanced Learning
Learn what we do for spacewalk prepping and assuring life-support systems
SAIC’s engineers work alongside NASA personnel in support of maintaining the safety of astronauts and crew members. We are there at the agency’s Johnson Space Center Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, helping to determine the safety and overall readiness of the astronauts, tools, and procedures to perform extravehicular activities.
Live Training
Learn how we can integrate low-cost, high-quality immersive training
The heightened realism of immersive training without taking operational C2 systems offline is one of the many advantages of our integration of augmented reality, virtual reality, data visualization, and gaming technologies into training programs
High Performance Training
LEARN HOW WE’RE IMPROVING COMMAND AND CONTROL THROUGH JADC2
SEE HOW WE’RE SOLVING SPACE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
We support the operations of the Air Force and other space organizations across the domain. We are designing the systems of the future for our customers who are facing a contested space as well as a congested space.
Command and Control
Learn more about our enterprise IT support for NASA
In civilian space, we support NASA’s Office of the Chief Information Officer for organizational and mission communications needs. This includes local area network management at all NASA centers. We integrate high-quality business apps, manage cloud-based apps, support mission apps and continuously identify software acceleration opportunities
Enterprise IT
Learn about our full range of cyber capabilities and solutions
SAIC is helping protect space systems and keeping them operational amid constant threats. Adversarial nations are growing in number and sophistication, so our space organizations and assets are facing ever-increasing risk of being attacked or subverted.
Cyber
Learn more about how we apply AI to space
SAIC helps space organizations gain better insights and domain awareness by improving their data collection and analysis strategies and operations. Our data scientists apply AI/ML to improve our customers’ data sets and augment human-led decision-making.
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Read about our mission engineering capability supporting test and evaluation
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.
Early In-Orbit Test and Evaluation
Read about our full-range program support for Air Force Space Command
With 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.
Launch
Click on each of our capabilities in the space lifecycle for more
Space mission integration
We’re rewriting
We’re enabling faster systems development, acquisition and delivery timelines against a threat-based space environment. Our work enables customers to navigate space and succeed.
Defense
We are leading the way in systems integration and digital transformation for intelligence community space. We are a trusted IC partner, making sure that the U.S. is prepared for any space threat to national security — today and tomorrow.
SAIC’s space experience stretches back to the 1950s. We remain at the forefront of national priorities to explore, secure and leverage space. Our work facilitates future unmanned spacecraft, earth science data-collecting satellites and space-ground systems for military joint all-domain command and control, to name a few. SAIC is helping to ensure our nation’s security and the prosperity and future of all humanity.
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
We leverage our systems integration expertise, engineering heritage and mission intimacy for critical civilian space missions, from enhanced space traffic management to the Lunar Gateway.
Civilian
OUR LEGACY IN SPACE CONTINUES TODAY
Contact us to see how we can accelerate your mission innovation and outcomes.
Your
Mission Needs?
SPACE
Are you ready
to tackle
Advance Today is SAIC’s approach to thought leadership. Keep moving forward with our expert analysis of trending topics tailored to help you advance today and prepare for whatever comes your way tomorrow.
with SAIC
Our counter-hypersonics support includes modeling and simulation of operational scenarios involving missile defeat as well as “left-of-launch” mitigation techniques.
Hypersonic Missile Defense Needs Modeling and Simulation Solutions
SAIC’s analytic gaming team looks at evolving domain requirements and possible black-swan events
Future of Space Industry, Disruptors Explored
For space, mission success will come from building a digital force to keep up with, even outpace, challenges
Organizations Weaving Digital Threads Will Yield Innovations
They are shrinking manufacturing time and cutting costs and mission risk.
Smallsats Present New Ways to Leverage Space
Download The EQADR Factsheet
Your space mission doesn’t need to rely on a single vendor or a stove-piped solution. SAIC is investing in tools and solutions for space systems integration that bring you the very best for your challenge. Encrypted query analytics and data retrieval (EQADR) helps manage data in such a way that several vendors could collaborate on the same solution without revealing intellectual property to competitors.
Encrypted query analytics and data retrieval (EQADR)
Download The EQADR Factsheet
Encrypted query analytics and data retrieval (EQADR)
Download The EQADR Factsheet
Encrypted query analytics and data retrieval (EQADR)
CONTACT US to get started
SAIC is today’s crucial space mission integrator, providing systems development, integration and engineering in addition to launch and operational services for our nation’s civilian, defense and intelligence community customers. In a rapidly evolving domain with commercial innovations and new partners, it takes an experienced and tech-savvy mission integrator to tie together all space stakeholders and disciplines for mission success — be it space traffic management, hypersonic defense or climate change mitigation.
Space requires a mission integrator that moves with decisive speed
The Fast Track
Putting Space On
SPACE
Home > Who We Serve > Space
Development of integrated space systems requires a broad spectrum of capabilities and innovations — including commercial ones. SAIC has a long history of partnership with civilian, defense and intelligence community space organizations on complex missions and major U.S. space programs. We’re embedded in development lifecycles with our customers so they benefit from our expertise at the root of complex integration issues.
SAIC is the lead systems integrator for the U.S. Space Force and is integrating next-generation command-and-control systems for defense space.
Systems Engineering & Integration
SAIC’s digital engineering technologies, tools and services accelerate space systems development and manufacturing while improving their quality and mission-readiness.
Digital Engineering
Our solutions deliver critical space domain insights all the way up to congressional-level reports. We’ve helped analyze threats such as hypersonic weapons and advised on defensive solutions and operational decision-making.
Modeling, Simulation and Analysis
SAIC engineers and analysts assess the safety, reliability, risks and hazards of spacecraft and operations for Department of Defense space missions and human spaceflight programs like the International Space Station, the Commercial Crew Program and the Artemis Program.
Safety and Mission Assurance
Operations
Training
Development
Engineering & Integration
SAIC performs software engineering as well as software assurance for all of NASA’s human spaceflight programs.
Software Development
We are supporting NASA in the development of the On-orbit Service, Assembly and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) satellite-refueling robot.
Prototype Development
We are executing the Multi-Mission Satellite Operation Center’s C2 ground system architecture.
Mission Systems
Operations
Training
Development
Engineering & Integration
SAIC is innovating space mission training with our virtual reality-based simulation environments.
Virtual Environments
Our training platform produces analytical insights that result in greater training and mission efficacy.
AI-Enhanced Learning
SAIC supports live astronaut training and simulation for NASA in order to keep human lives safe in space.
Live Training
We deliver training courses that help space mission performers with acuity and spatial relationships.
High Performance Training
Operations
Training
Development
Engineering & Integration
SAIC provides lead support to the U.S. Air Force for its enterprise ground services and systems. SAIC is also the prime contractor for the U.S. Space Force in managing Space-Track.org.
Command and Control
SAIC is a leading provider of IT, cloud and enterprise solutions for space organizations. We are the prime contractor on the Department of Defense’s premier cloud solution.
Enterprise IT
SAIC is performing vulnerability assessments for crucial space systems across intelligence community, civilian and defense space.
Cyber
We apply industry-leading data science methodologies and AI/ML technologies to produce advanced analytical insights in space missions.
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
SAIC conducts initial operations on GPS systems before our customers put them into operational use.
Early In-Orbit Test and Evaluation
SAIC has assisted in hundreds of successful space launches, including 40 in the past year.
Launch
Operations
Training
Development
Engineering & Integration
LEARN HOW WE PROVIDE SYSTEMS INTEGRATION ON SMALLSATS
Learn how we quantitatively assess systems readiness
Learn how our systems engineers are industry thought leaders
Our space domain experts leverage SAIC’s systems engineering capabilities and an open architecture approach to agilely evolve customers to more resilient systems architectures that can integrate technologies and solutions from nontraditional providers. We provide integration assistance for ground system prototyping and pathfinding efforts.
Systems Engineering & Integration
Learn more at our digital engineering page
We are leading the way in applying digital engineering — interconnected modeling, simulation, analytics, visualization and collaboration — capabilities to accelerate the design and development of systems architectures as well as systems themselves. As our space customers move to more resilient architectures, we are supporting their evolution from traditionally manual systems engineering processes to digital engineering and helping them connect with their stakeholders to form digital engineering ecosystems.
Digital Engineering
Learn about our Quick-Response Modeling solution
Read how we apply high performance computing to solve challenges
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.
Modeling, Simulation and Analysis
Learn more about Agile INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION
SAIC performs safety and mission assurance for NASA, the Department of Defense and the intelligence community’s spacecraft and payloads. For example, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, we delivered real-time operational support throughout all phases of the Artemis 1 mission, evaluating flight products to identify potential impacts to safety requirements. We also perform 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.
Safety and Mission Assurance
THE 5 ELEMENTS FOR ASSURING SAFE HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE SERVICES
We ensure that software for space operations works and behaves as designed. We also help our customers move to cloud and internet-of-things environments as well as DevSecOps development chains, as they migrate their legacy mission and administrative applications.
Software Development
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR OSAM-1 SUPPORT
SAIC is helping the space agency design, test, integrate and assemble the “robot with a toolbox,” whose job will be refueling on-orbit satellites not designed to be service. Our support in the groundbreaking OSAM-1 mission encompasses the robot’s autonomous docking mechanism, robotics, ground systems, software and hardware.
Prototype Development
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.
Mission Systems
Click on each of the four videos to explore our virtual training offerings for simulating missions, exploring conceptual and future assets, interacting with in-orbit assets, and analyzing design constellations
MISSION TRAINING
Future and Conceptual Assets
Satellite Gantry
Design Constellations
Our customers use these environments to train individuals or entire groups in life-like, immersive simulations of operations centers, for example. Other visualizations feature walk-arounds for the Space Systems Command. The realism of our virtual environments results from our integration of augmented reality, virtual reality, data visualization and gaming technologies.
Virtual Environments
Virtual Training Is No Longer Sci-Fi Fantasy
Learn more about our virtual simulation support for USAF
SAIC has markedly accelerated aviator readiness in the U.S. Air Force’s Pilot Training Next program through our analytics-based training. Now, we are ready to apply proven, successful techniques to space training using our analytics tools and tailorable training platform.
AI-Enhanced Learning
Learn what we do for spacewalk prepping and assuring life-support systems
SAIC’s engineers work alongside NASA personnel in support of maintaining the safety of astronauts and crew members. We are there at the agency’s Johnson Space Center Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, helping to determine the safety and overall readiness of the astronauts, tools, and procedures to perform extravehicular activities.
Live Training
Learn how we can integrate low-cost, high-quality immersive training
The heightened realism of immersive training without taking operational C2 systems offline is one of the many advantages of our integration of augmented reality, virtual reality, data visualization, and gaming technologies into training programs
High Performance Training
LEARN HOW WE’RE IMPROVING COMMAND AND CONTROL THROUGH JADC2
SEE HOW WE’RE SOLVING SPACE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
We support the operations of the Air Force and other space organizations across the domain. We are designing the systems of the future for our customers who are facing a contested space as well as a congested space.
Command and Control
Learn more about our enterprise IT support for NASA
In civilian space, we support NASA’s Office of the Chief Information Officer for organizational and mission communications needs. This includes local area network management at all NASA centers. We integrate high-quality business apps, manage cloud-based apps, support mission apps and continuously identify software acceleration opportunities
Enterprise IT
Learn about our full range of cyber capabilities and solutions
SAIC is helping protect space systems and keeping them operational amid constant threats. Adversarial nations are growing in number and sophistication, so our space organizations and assets are facing ever-increasing risk of being attacked or subverted.
Cyber
Learn more about how we apply AI to space
SAIC helps space organizations gain better insights and domain awareness by improving their data collection and analysis strategies and operations. Our data scientists apply AI/ML to improve our customers’ data sets and augment human-led decision-making.
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Read about our mission engineering capability supporting test and evaluation
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.
Early In-Orbit Test and Evaluation
Read about our full-range program support for Air Force Space Command
With 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.
Launch
Click on each of our capabilities in the space lifecycle for more
Space mission integration
We’re rewriting
We’re enabling faster systems development, acquisition and delivery timelines against a threat-based space environment. Our work enables customers to navigate space and succeed.
Defense
We are leading the way in systems integration and digital transformation for intelligence community space. We are a trusted IC partner, making sure that the U.S. is prepared for any space threat to national security — today and tomorrow.
SAIC’s space experience stretches back to the 1950s. We remain at the forefront of national priorities to explore, secure and leverage space. Our work facilitates future unmanned spacecraft, earth science data-collecting satellites and space-ground systems for military joint all-domain command and control, to name a few. SAIC is helping to ensure our nation’s security and the prosperity and future of all humanity.
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
We leverage our systems integration expertise, engineering heritage and mission intimacy for critical civilian space missions, from enhanced space traffic management to the Lunar Gateway.
Civilian
OUR LEGACY IN SPACE CONTINUES TODAY
Contact us to see how we can accelerate your mission innovation and outcomes.
Your
Mission Needs?
SPACE
Are you ready
to tackle
Advance Today is SAIC’s approach to thought leadership. Keep moving forward with our expert analysis of trending topics tailored to help you advance today and prepare for whatever comes your way tomorrow.
with SAIC
Our counter-hypersonics support includes modeling and simulation of operational scenarios involving missile defeat as well as “left-of-launch” mitigation techniques.
Hypersonic Missile Defense Needs Modeling and Simulation Solutions
SAIC’s analytic gaming team looks at evolving domain requirements and possible black-swan events
Future of Space Industry, Disruptors Explored
For space, mission success will come from building a digital force to keep up with, even outpace, challenges
Organizations Weaving Digital Threads Will Yield Innovations
They are shrinking manufacturing time and cutting costs and mission risk.
Smallsats Present New Ways to Leverage Space
Download The EQADR Factsheet
Your space mission doesn’t need to rely on a single vendor or a stove-piped solution. SAIC is investing in tools and solutions for space systems integration that bring you the very best for your challenge. Encrypted query analytics and data retrieval (EQADR) helps manage data in such a way that several vendors could collaborate on the same solution without revealing intellectual property to competitors.
Encrypted query analytics and data retrieval (EQADR)
Download The EQADR Factsheet
Encrypted query analytics and data retrieval (EQADR)
Download The EQADR Factsheet
Encrypted query analytics and data retrieval (EQADR)