Scout Space Selected for STRATFI Award to Scale Space Domain Awareness
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Scout Space, a Virginia-based company providing in-space products and services, has been selected as one of 11 companies to receive a SpaceWERX STRATFI award. This award, aimed at scaling space domain awareness capabilities for the U.S. Space Force, comes with a significant financial backing of $562.5 million in combined funding, including $245 million in private capital. The award follows Scout's recent Series A investment round, which closed in June 2026.
The STRATFI program, designed to help companies transition from prototype to operational capability, is a critical tool for the Space Force. It signals demand to industry, de-risks innovative technologies, and helps small and non-traditional businesses scale game-changing capabilities more affordably.
Scout Space, with its platform-agnostic systems, combines advanced payloads, edge processing, and autonomous software to detect, track, and characterize objects in orbit. The company has already flown six payloads to orbit and plans to launch an additional dozen missions over the next two years.
The STRATFI award builds on Scout's previous work with the U.S. Space Force, including three Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI) contracts. These contracts involved delivering a new Geostationary Orbit (GEO) space domain awareness sensor, enhancing SDA through on-board data processing, and developing a hardware-agnostic flight software testbed for SDA payloads. The company's Owl suite of sensors will be scaled with this new funding, offering additional payload options, including multi-phenomenology sensing and intelligence on other objects in orbit.
In fiscal year 2025, SpaceWERX awarded more than 300 contracts totaling $510 million. This financial support underscores the growing importance of private capital in the space domain.
The STRATFI award is a significant milestone for Scout Space, marking a strategic partnership between the company and the U.S. Space Force. As Scout Space continues to scale its production capacity and grow its sensor suite, the company is well-positioned to support safer and more informed operations across commercial and national security missions.