The United States has established national priorities to maintain global leadership and keep pace with dynamic evolution in key emerging areas. The U.S. Department of Defense, federal civil agencies, commercial sector, and international allies benefit from innovative capabilities associated with these strategic priorities.
 

As the systems engineering and integration federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) focused on space and related complex systems enterprises, The Aerospace Corporation is a partner ready to advance U.S. leadership of space. Aerospace, a co-inventor of GPS, 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 assure mission success for space systems and space vehicles.
 

• Autonomous Systems: A Framework for Developing Trust in Artificial Intelligence
• Digital Engineering: Leveraging Digital Engineering for Space Guardians and Space Explorers
• Environmental Security: GOES-R: Understanding the Critical Role of Weather Satellites
• Environmental Security: USSF-62 Launch: Aerospace Supports Delivery of Key Weather Satellite to Orbit
• Human Spaceflight: NASA Moon to Mars Architecture Concept Review 
• Integrating Commercial: TRL Bootcamp Accelerates Commercial Innovation for Government Use
• Integrating Commercial: Commercial Space Futures
• Integrating Commercial: Overcoming the Flight-proven Paradox with Testbeds and Proving Grounds
• Integrating International: The Aerospace Corporation UK Ltd
• Integrating International: Leveraging Commercial Space Globally
• ISAM: COSMIC: Propelling ISAM From Transformational To Routine
• ISAM: Game Changer: In-Space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing for the New Space Economy
• Nuclear Security: Supporting the National Nuclear Deterrence and Nonproliferation Mission
• Space Cyber: Cybersecurity in Orbit: How Aerospace is Evolving Defenses Against Emerging Space Threats
• Space Cyber: SPARTA Cyber Framework and Space-cyber Tactics, Techniques and Procedures 
• Space Ecosystems: Center for Space Policy and Strategy’s Space Agenda 2025
• Space Ecosystems: Space Policy Show Episode 125: Forging Ahead in Cislunar
• Space Safety: Space Safety Institute
• Supply Chain Resilience: STAR: Shining Light on Space Supply Chain Risk