‘Integrate’ software selected by Space Force to streamline satellite launches

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force awarded a five-year $25 million contract to Integrate, a Seattle-based software startup, for its project management platform designed to help large organizations coordinate complex projects in secure environments.

The contract, announced June 11, represents one of the Space Force’s largest Small Business Innovation Research Phase 3 agreements. It will provide the Space Systems Command’s Mission Manifest Office (MMO) in Los Angeles with software to streamline how it coordinates satellite launches across multiple government agencies.

The MMO was created to improve efficiency in national security space launches. It surveys upcoming missions to identify available capacity on launch vehicles, then works across various U.S. government entities — including the Department of Defense, NASA, and the intelligence community — and commercial vendors to find satellites or payloads that can “rideshare” on these launches. 

Integrate, a venture-funded firm founded in 2022, first established its relationship with the Space Force through an SBIR Phase 2 contract in 2023.

CEO John Conafay said the MMO selected Integrate’s project management tool for its ability to unify “complex, cross-organizational programs.” He explained that the software aims to replace the disparate and often inefficient methods of communication and coordination — such as emails, spreadsheets, and fragmented tools — with a secure, collaborative environment. While Integrate’s software is a commercial product already in use by companies in the aerospace, automotive, defense, and energy sectors, Conafay said some tweaks were necessary to meet the Space Force’s stringent classification requirements.

The Integrate platform is built on Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud, a specialized cloud environment designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads for government agencies. This infrastructure allows the platform to operate in both classified and hybrid environments, addressing a key need for defense applications.

Conafay said project coordination remains a persistent challenge across both government and commercial sectors.

“It’s one of those absolutely necessary but unsexy parts of how we do all of these complex things, whether it’s getting to space faster, designing rockets faster,” Conafay said. “This contract validates the importance of these management tools.”

The Integrate platform is aimed at organizations with extended project timelines, strict compliance requirements and complex supply chains — characteristics that define much of the aerospace and defense industry.