Cleared Foundry engineers for U.S. Space Command, Space Force, NORAD, and defense contractors in Colorado Springs requiring Palantir expertise for space operations and national defense missions.
Colorado Springs is the center of U.S. military space operations. The city hosts U.S. Space Command, U.S. Space Force, NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command), multiple Space Force bases, and the Air Force Academy. These organizations conduct space domain awareness, missile warning, satellite operations, and space systems command and control—all missions requiring sophisticated data integration and operational intelligence platforms.
Palantir has significant deployments across Colorado Springs military installations. Space domain awareness requires integrating data from ground-based radars, space-based sensors, telescope observations, and intelligence sources to track thousands of satellites and debris objects. Missile warning systems need real-time data fusion from early warning radars and satellites. Satellite operations require coordinating tasking, telemetry, and mission planning across dozens of space vehicles.
U.S. Space Command is a unified combatant command responsible for military operations in space. USSPACECOM conducts space domain awareness (tracking satellites and space debris), space control operations, and provides space capabilities to joint forces worldwide.
Space domain awareness challenges: More than 30,000 tracked objects orbit Earth—satellites, debris, rocket bodies. Data comes from Space Surveillance Network radars, optical telescopes, space-based sensors, and intelligence sources. Operators need to detect new launches, track close approaches, identify threats, and predict potential collisions. This requires integrating high-velocity sensor data with orbital mechanics models, historical tracking data, and intelligence assessments.
What Foundry provides: Real-time integration of space surveillance data from multiple sensors. Ontologies that model satellites, orbits, close approaches, and threat assessments. Workshop applications for space operators that display current space picture, predict conjunctions, and support operational decision-making.
The U.S. Space Force is the newest military service, established in 2019 and headquartered at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs. Space Force operates military satellites providing GPS navigation, missile warning, secure communications, weather monitoring, and intelligence collection.
Satellite operations requirements: Operating dozens of military satellites requires integrating telemetry data, command schedules, mission planning, maintenance tracking, and anomaly detection. Space operators need systems that show satellite health, predict maintenance needs, coordinate tasking across multiple ground stations, and respond to operational anomalies.
Foundry for space operations: Data integration across satellite control systems, ground stations, and mission planning tools. Ontologies that understand space vehicles, ground stations, orbital mechanics, and operational requirements. Workshop applications that space operators use for mission planning, satellite commanding, and anomaly response.
NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) provides aerospace warning and control for North America. This includes ballistic missile warning, air sovereignty, and maritime warning. NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain Complex is one of the most well-known military installations in the world.
Missile warning systems: Ballistic missile detection requires integrating data from early warning satellites, ground-based radars, and intelligence sources. Operators need to detect launches, determine trajectory, predict impact, and provide warning to national leadership within minutes. This is a real-time, mission-critical data integration problem where mistakes have strategic consequences.
Air defense operations: NORAD tracks aircraft in North American airspace, identifies potential threats, and coordinates with fighter aircraft for intercepts when needed. This requires integrating radar tracks, flight plans, and threat assessments into operational displays for air defense commanders.
Schriever SFB: Home to Space Operations Command (formerly Air Force Space Command). Operates GPS satellites, missile warning satellites, and military communications satellites. Hosts the National Space Defense Center.
Peterson SFB: Space Force headquarters. Houses NORAD and USSPACECOM operations. Location of the Combined Space Operations Center (CSpOC) which conducts space domain awareness and space control operations.
Major defense contractors supporting space operations in Colorado Springs include:
These contractors win programs for satellite operations support, ground system modernization, space domain awareness platforms, and command and control systems. Many of these programs require data integration across legacy space systems—exactly where Foundry is relevant. We work as subcontractors when primes need Foundry specialists who understand space operations workflows.
Integrating sensor data from radars, telescopes, and space-based sensors. Correlating tracks across multiple observations. Predicting satellite orbits and detecting maneuvers. Building ontologies that understand orbital mechanics, conjunction analysis, and threat assessment.
Space operators need Workshop applications that display current space situation, show satellite health, predict conjunctions, and support operational decision-making. These aren't generic dashboards—they're mission tools where seconds matter and mistakes have operational consequences.
Integrating satellite telemetry, command schedules, ground station availability, and mission requirements. Operators need systems that help coordinate tasking, predict maintenance needs, and respond to anomalies.
Real-time integration of early warning satellite data, radar tracks, and intelligence assessments. Building systems that provide warning to national leadership within minutes of detecting ballistic missile launches. This is mission-critical work where system failures affect national security.
Space operations work typically requires TS/SCI clearances. Satellite operations, space domain awareness, and missile warning are classified programs. Some programs require additional compartmented access or special access program (SAP) read-ons. Our engineers hold active TS/SCI clearances and have worked on classified space programs.
Cleared Foundry engineers with space domain experience: Engineers who understand space operations workflows, orbital mechanics, and the data systems that space programs actually use. Not generic data engineers—specialists who know how space domain awareness and satellite operations work.
Space domain ontologies: Data models for satellites, orbits, sensors, tracking, and space operations that match how Space Force and Space Command actually think about their missions.
Workshop applications for space operators: Operational displays, mission planning tools, and decision support applications built for space domain awareness, satellite operations, and command and control—not generic analytics dashboards.
Real-time data integration: Pipelines that handle high-velocity sensor data, satellite telemetry, and tracking updates in near real-time. Systems that support operational decision-making where minutes matter.
Travel and on-site support: We're based in Virginia but travel to Colorado Springs for program kickoffs, design sessions, and operational deployments. We understand the security requirements for working on Space Force and Space Command installations.
BaileyFinch Solutions is an SBA-Certified VOSB (CAGE: 9ZDW1, UEI: U8CWL9QJZGH1). We're eligible for VOSB set-asides and help prime contractors meet small business subcontracting goals on Space Force and Space Command programs.