Sedaro wins up to $45M SpaceWERX STRATFI for Space Force mission engineering

Sedaro has been selected for a Strategic Funding Increase opportunity from SpaceWERX to expand the Space Systems Command’s mission-engineering platform. The award could reach $45 million in combined program funding and is aimed at helping the Space Force analyze more complex defense architectures and missions.

Why it matters: - The award could help the U.S. Space Force scale enterprise mission engineering across more programs and organizations. - The effort is meant to improve analysis of how space systems and capabilities work together in dynamic mission conditions. - The program also positions the platform for Phase III transition and sustained non-SBIR government funding.

What happened: - Sedaro was selected for a Strategic Funding Increase, or STRATFI, by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s SpaceWERX, the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force. - The selection supports Space Systems Command’s Space Systems Integration Office, or SSIO, and its System-of-Systems Engineering Platform. - The initial effort represents up to $45 million in combined program funding, including STRATFI funding and additional U.S. government investment led by SSIO. - The announcement was made Sept. 21, 2026, in Arlington, Virginia.

The details: - The SSIO platform is built on Sedaro’s cloud infrastructure. - The system uses open interfaces and Modular Open Systems Approach, or MOSA, principles. - Government and industry contributors can integrate, extend and evolve the models, workflows and capabilities they steward inside a shared enterprise environment. - The platform is designed to support mission-level analysis of systems developed across different programs and organizations. - The STRATFI builds on Sedaro’s prior work with SSIO and earlier Space Force digital-engineering efforts. - A core goal is to create a connected mission-engineering ecosystem where validated models, workflows, standards and integrations can be reused across organizational boundaries. - SpaceWERX partners with startups, small businesses and nontraditional vendors to accelerate commercial space technologies for Guardians. - SpaceWERX is headquartered in Los Angeles. - In fiscal year 2025, SpaceWERX awarded more than 300 contracts totaling $510 million. - Sedaro says its platform is deployed across Department of War, U.S. Space Force and intelligence community programs supporting space, missile defense, joint all-domain operations and force design. - Sedaro says its unified cloud-native environment replaces fragmented tools for designing, simulating and validating missions at scale.

Between the lines: - The award signals that the Space Force is pushing toward a more reusable, enterprise-wide digital engineering model rather than one-off program tools. - Sedaro’s positioning suggests the company is moving from pilot-scale support to a broader operational role in national security space integration. - Robbie Robertson, Sedaro’s CEO and co-founder, called the STRATFI a validation of the company’s approach to enterprise mission engineering. - Robertson said Sedaro is building collaborative operational infrastructure that can support more missions, more organizations and more consequential decisions across the national security space enterprise.

What's next: - Sedaro will expand and accelerate Space Systems Command’s ability to analyze increasingly complex defense architectures and dynamic missions. - The platform is expected to scale to additional programs, organizations and workflows. - The work is aimed at delivering new integrated capabilities for the warfighter with greater scale, speed and rigor. - SpaceWERX and Sedaro point to the possibility of continued government adoption beyond the STRATFI award.

The bottom line: - The Space Force is backing Sedaro to help build a persistent mission-engineering backbone for space enterprise integration and analysis. - More information - Sedaro on LinkedIn