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The Space Warfighting Center: Colorado Springs

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SWC Facts

  • Designed from the ground up specifically to enable the deeply technical analysis the United States needs to lead in the space domain

  • State-of-the-art 90,000 square foot facility with classified and unclassified space

  • Large auditorium and other collaborative spaces with secure video teleconferencing capability for 200+ attendees

  • Broke ground in summer 2020

  • More than 300 Aerospace employees

  • Opened winter 2022

  • Address: 7246 Getting Heights, Colorado Springs, CO 80916

 

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The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) leads a Federally Funded Research and Development Center for the nation’s space enterprise, providing trusted technical expertise to solve the hardest problems in space and support our government partners in their efforts to outpace the adversary threat.

As the space domain has become increasingly contested, Aerospace has once again built on our legacy of warfighter support by constructing a state-of-the-art facility in Colorado Springs, which opened in 2022. This one-of-a-kind facility, known as the Space Warfighting Center (SWC), expands upon Aerospace’s capabilities to meet the complex technical and strategic needs of our customers and partners in the region.

 

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The new facility was designed with a laser-focus on helping our customers leverage modern digital tools and collaboration spaces to shape the future of the national security space enterprise while also allowing for flexibility to adapt to evolving mission requirements.

The SWC includes a multipurpose center to securely hold exercises and meetings with industry and government partners at the highest classification levels and with secure virtual connectivity to facilitate development of advanced space warfighting concepts and other collaborative efforts with Aerospace locations in El Segundo, California; Chantilly and Crystal City, Virginia; and Albuquerque, New Mexico. It also provides dedicated computing system laboratories for modeling and simulation, cybersecurity and space warfighting to further Aerospace’s innovative work. The facility and the additional staffing it supports enhance Aerospace’s capabilities in several key areas, including:

  • Employing high-fidelity analysis and physics-based modeling and simulation in a digital engineering environment

  • Providing technical expertise and analytical capabilities to support Force Design for the entire space enterprise

  • Developing physics- and risk-informed tactics, techniques and procedures to support space warfighting and space warfighters

  • Fusing operational constructs and experience with physics-based tools and analyses to help develop and evaluate space warfighting concepts

Over the past year, the facility has become fully functional, hosting some of the most cutting-edge and impactful national security space wargaming, modeling and simulation, and warfighting readiness efforts.

 

About The Aerospace Corporation

The Aerospace Corporation is a leading architect for the nation’s space programs, advancing capabilities that outpace threats to the country’s national security while nurturing innovative technologies to further a new era of space commercialization and exploration. Aerospace’s national workforce of more than 4,600 employees provides objective technical expertise and thought leadership to solve the hardest problems in space and ensure mission success for space systems and space vehicles. For more information, visit www.aerospace.org. Follow us on LinkedIn and on X: @AerospaceCorp.