SpaceWERX is the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force and a division within AFWERX. Headquartered in Los Angeles, it focuses on inspiring collaboration with innovators to accelerate space capabilities and shape the future in space. SpaceWERX partners with organizations like Space Systems Command and the Aerospace Corporation, and it employs various programs such as SBIR/STTR to invest in emerging technologies and transition them to operational use. Keywords associated with SpaceWERX include: space innovation, technology transition, U.S. Space Force, and AFWERX.
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Exploration Laboratories received a $1,900,000 Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI) from SpaceWERX to accelerate work on technology to autonomously capture space objects.
True Anomaly is supporting Gravitics as a subcontractor on Gravitics’ $1,700,000 SBIR Direct-to-Phase II contract from SpaceWERX.
True Anomaly, Inc. was awarded a $1,600,000 Direct-to-Phase II contract by SpaceWERX focused on Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS).
Space Systems Command’s Assured Access to Space organization expanded efforts with Starfish Space, SpaceWERX, Space Safari, and the SSC Commercial Space Office to improve responsiveness, resilience, and strategic flexibility of U.S. on-orbit assets.
Gravitics was awarded a $1,700,000 Small Business Innovation Research Direct-to-Phase II contract from SpaceWERX.
Under the SpaceWERX contract, Gravitics will leverage its commercial space station product architecture to develop orbital platforms for rapid and flexible response options for the United States Space Force.
Under the SpaceWERX contract, Gravitics will leverage its commercial space station product architecture to develop orbital platforms that enable rapid and flexible response options for the United States Space Force.
Gravitics won a $1,700,000 Small Business Innovation Research contract from SpaceWERX on 2024-04-25.
Gravitics, Inc. was awarded a $1,700,000 Small Business Innovation Research Direct-to-Phase II contract from SpaceWERX.
SSC Space Safari partnered with SpaceWERX to assist in the technical and commercial evaluation of True Anomaly and to support an emergent SBIR selection by Space Force leadership.
The United States Space Force’s Space Systems Command Space Safari Program Office partnered with the Defense Innovation Unit and SpaceWERX to execute the VICTUS HAZE on-orbit space domain awareness demonstration.
True Anomaly was awarded a $1,630,000 Direct to Phase II SBIR contract through the SpaceWERX TacRS Challenge.
SpaceWERX awarded a $15,000,000 contract to software startup Defense Unicorns to update software applications and IT systems used for weather monitoring and telemetry processing in support of rocket launches.
Space Systems Command and SpaceWERX are pursuing a multi-pronged strategy to revamp launch range IT systems by awarding contracts to established defense contractors as well as small businesses and startups.
True Anomaly received a $1,630,000 Direct to Phase II SBIR contract through the SpaceWERX TacRS Challenge to demonstrate rapid integration of payloads to the Jackal AOV.
SpaceWERX’s Tactically Responsive Space challenge partnered with Space Systems Command’s Space Safari program office for the awarded Small Business Innovation Research contract.
Scout Space won a $1,800,000 Small Business Innovation Research contract on 2024-04-04 under the SpaceWERX Tactically Responsive Space challenge in partnership with Space Systems Command’s Space Safari program office.
Exploration Labs received a $1,700,000 SpaceWERX Small Business Innovation Research contract in 2023 for technology related to autonomous capture and acquisition of space objects.
COMSO aligned SpaceWERX Challenges with some Industry Days and had about $40,000,000 available to onboard companies through direct-to-Phase 2 contracts.
Agile Space won a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 2 contract from SpaceWERX to further develop its Mobile Payload Processing Center.