SMI’s Aerospace and Space Practice supports the Department of War’s operational dominance across contested multidomain environments by advancing mission-critical technologies through coordinated collaboration across government, industry, and academia.
Aerospace and space technologies are among the highest priorities for the Department of War (DOW) as it seeks to project power, maintain decision superiority, and deter potential adversaries across increasingly contested multidomain operational environments. Advancing these missions requires progress across a broad set of technical areas, including propulsion, hypersonics, directed energy, resilient space and terrestrial communications, artificial intelligence and autonomy, electronic warfare, sensing and ISR payloads, space domain awareness, launch systems and infrastructure, power generation and storage, satellite constellations, and integrated command-and-control architectures. Maintaining technological superiority in these domains requires sustained collaboration among government, industry, and academia to accelerate innovation and operational deployment.
Since its founding, SMI has worked with industry and government leaders across the aerospace and space sectors to advance state-of-the-art technologies critical to national security. As the U.S. seeks to maintain capability overmatch through critical technologies, SMI recognizes that success requires tailored strategies and collaboration among organizations of all sizes across industry, academia, and government. SMI maintains active engagement with stakeholders across organizations including the United States Space Force, Space Systems Command, Air Force Research Laboratory, Missile Defense Agency, DARPA, NASA, and others to remain current on operational priorities, emerging technologies, and investment trends, while leveraging its network to align innovative capabilities with government mission needs and deliver results for its clients.
To support both the technical maturation of these critical technologies and deeper connectivity with relevant DOW program offices, SMI has a staff of senior advisors and full-time professionals. These individuals harness a range of skills from contract expertise to previously servicing as the critical decision-makers for DOW’s budget. SMI fosters connectivity across its client base and broader ecosystem, including potential technical partners, executive and congressional stakeholders, and other key decision-makers, to support the development of capacity and capability.
