What Sci Tec does

SciTec, Inc. is a U.S. defense and national security contractor founded in 1979 and headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, that develops remote sensing, surveillance, missile warning, and command-and-control systems for the Department of Defense, U.S. Space Force, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, Missile Defense Agency, Space Development Agency, and the Intelligence Community. The company's portfolio is anchored by the FORGE (Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution) Framework — a government-owned, cyber-secure, modular open systems architecture that hosts mission data processing applications for OPIR (Overhead Persistent Infrared) missile warning and tracking — and by the CBC2 Tracker Fusion system, a cloud-native data fusion platform that ingests military and civilian feeds into a unified operational picture for NORAD, USNORTHCOM, and PACAF. Supporting products include MDPAP mission data processing, FORGE Legacy SBIRS sensor-specific processing, the SHIELDS testbed and APOLLO Frame Processing Library, ATTAC, BATGIRL, FIRES, JMITS/MSALTS missile simulators, and emerging edge processing for small satellites, with AI/ML embedded throughout the stack for image processing, signal detection, tracking, and autonomous battle management.\n\nSciTec generates revenue almost exclusively through U.S. government contracts awarded via competitive bidding through IDIQ, OTA, and direct award mechanisms. Approximately $164 million in LTM revenue (ending June 30, 2025) is concentrated in a handful of large multi-year programs — most notably FORGE EOS ($259M), MDPAP ($272M), FORGE Legacy SBIRS SSP ($45.8M), CBC2 ($24M initial + $5.5M option), and Army missile simulator support ($26.6M). The company employs more than 475 people across six U.S. locations (Princeton NJ, two in Boulder CO, Dayton OH, El Segundo CA, Huntsville AL, and Herndon VA), operates as a Certified Small Business non-traditional defense contractor, and holds three-time recipient of the DSS Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award. In October 2025, Firefly Aerospace (NASDAQ: FLY) announced an acquisition of SciTec for approximately $855 million ($300M cash + $555M in Firefly shares at $50/share), which closed in November 2025; SciTec now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Firefly Aerospace under CEO Jim Lisowski, with the existing business model preserved.

Name

Sci Tec

Legal name

SciTec Incorporated

Website

https://scitec.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1979

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

SciTec is a U.S. defense contractor that builds remote sensing, missile warning, data fusion, and command-and-control systems for the Space Force, Air Force, Army, and Intelligence Community, anchored by the FORGE ground processing architecture and CBC2 Tracker Fusion platform. Acquired by Firefly Aerospace in November 2025 for ~$855M.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Defense Software Systems

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths) (561621)

SIC

Search, Detection, Navagation, Guidance, Aeronautical Sys (3812), Guided Missiles & Space Vehicles & Parts (3760)

akta.pro primary industry

Space-Based Defense Systems (SSA, Missile Warning, Protected SATCOM) (IMABAOAH)

Keywords

• Missile warning systems
• Command and control systems
• Remote sensing technology
• Defense data fusion
• Space domain awareness

Headquarters

HQ city

Princeton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Government Defense Contracts: SciTec generates revenue primarily through U.S. government defense contracts supporting the intelligence community, defense and national security agencies, and commercial customers. Revenue is driven by contracts including FORGE ($259M EOS, $272M MDPAP, $45.8M SBIRS SSP), CBC2 ($24M initial + $5.5M option), and Army missile simulator support ($26.6M). SciTec generated approximately $164 million in revenue for the twelve months ending June 30, 2025.
2. Research and Development Services: SciTec provides R&D services focused on the advancement of remote sensing applications for national security and homeland defense through various government contracting mechanisms including SBIR, SpEC OTA, and Broad Agency Announcements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

SciTec develops remote-sensing, missile warning and defense, command and control, ISR, and space domain awareness systems for U.S. government defense and intelligence agencies. The company's core offerings include the FORGE ground processing framework, CBC2 Tracker Fusion cloud-based data fusion system, MDPAP mission data processing applications, and specialized sensor processing for SBIRS and OPIR missions, supported by proprietary AI/ML capabilities and a Software Factory development model.

Product overview

SciTec delivers defense technology as a platform-plus-modules architecture centered on missile warning and defense, command and control, and data fusion. Core products include the FORGE (Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution) system providing government-owned, cyber-secure ground processing for OPIR missions; CBC2 Tracker Fusion for cloud-based multi-source data fusion supporting CJADC2; and Mission Data Processing applications (MDPAP) for Space Force missile warning. Supporting modules include specialized sensor processing (SBIRS SSP, ATTAC), modeling and simulation tools (FIRES, SHIELDS), and test equipment (JMITS, MSALTS). The company also provides ISR, space domain awareness, aircraft survivability, and counter-UAS capabilities. In 2025, SciTec was acquired by Firefly Aerospace (~855M) to expand Firefly's defense software portfolio.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CBC2 Tracker Fusion (Cloud-Based Command & Control Tracker Fusion)
• FORGE (Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution)
• Mission Data Processing Application Provider (MDPAP)
• FORGE Legacy SBIRS SSP (Sensor Specific Processing)
• JMITS (Joint Mobile Infrared Countermeasure Test System)
• MSALTS (Multi-Spectral Sea and Land Target System)
• ATTAC (Automated Tactical Tracking and Classification)
• BATGIRL (Battlespace Awareness Target Geolocation and Identification using Reinforced Learning)
• DFEAT (Dynamic Functions for Exploitation of Advanced Threats)
• FIRES (Firing Incidents and Radiation Effects Simulation)
• PREPARE (Processing Real-time Architecture for Persistent Awareness)
• OPTION-A (Onboard Processing Toolkit)
• SHIELDS (SciTec HI-fidelity Early Launch Detection Software)
• APOLLO (Application Processing Library)
• FORGE Enterprise OPIR Solution (EOS)
• Small Satellite Technologies
• Counter-UAS System

Quantifiable outcome

• MVP capability integrated in just 6 months for CBC2 program
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability8 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and secondary.

• Outside Analytics (subsidiary of SMX)coreTechnology or Integration · 9 December 2025Outside Analytics was named a key subcontractor to SciTec on the $259 million FORGE Enterprise OPIR Solution (EOS) contract. Outside Analytics contributes expertise in real-time data processing, graphical user interfaces, and scalable software solutions to support the next-generation FORGE framework for missile warning and tracking capabilities.
• Firefly AerospaceflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 October 2025Firefly Aerospace acquired SciTec for approximately $855 million ($300M cash + $555M in Firefly shares). SciTec operates as a Firefly subsidiary under its current business model. The acquisition adds SciTec's defense software analytics, missile warning, tracking and defense, ISR, and AI-enabled data processing capabilities to Firefly's existing launch, lunar, and in-space services.
• Northrop Grumman CorporationcoreTechnology or Integration · 20 March 2023Northrop Grumman's Launch & Missile Defense Systems Division partnered with SciTec on the FORGE Legacy SBIRS SSP development program following a nine-month competitive fly-off. Collaboration focused on delivering superior capability to exploit SBIRS data for Missile Warning, Missile Defense, Battlespace Awareness, and Technical Intelligence.
• Radiance Technologies, Inc.coreTechnology or Integration · 20 March 2023Partnered with SciTec on the FORGE Legacy SBIRS SSP development program following competitive effort to deliver sensor-specific processing applications for legacy SBIRS sensors within the FORGE modernized architecture.
• Raytheon TechnologiescoreTechnology or Integration · 9 September 2022Part of the FORGE team led by SciTec; Raytheon developed the FORGE Framework in partnership with the government while SciTec developed FORGE Processing. Teammate on the MDPAP effort delivering critical applications for the Space Force's missile warning mission.
• Northrop Grumman CorporationcoreTechnology or Integration · 20 December 2021Missile Defense Business Unit of Northrop Grumman Corporation's Space Systems Sector partnered with SciTec to deliver the FORGE SSP prototype capability, processing legacy SBIRS HEO sensor data.
• Expedition TechnologysecondaryStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 April 2021SciTec partnered with Expedition Technology under SDA's Mission-Specific Application Prototypes contract to develop and demonstrate robust mission data processing in support of SDA's Battle Management Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3) objectives for the Tracking Layer.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Anduril Industries: Anduril's Lattice OS provides real-time multi-sensor data fusion and autonomous C2 for defense customers, directly competing with SciTec's CBC2 Tracker Fusion in CJADC2-style pursuits and bringing a venture-backed non-traditional contractor model similar to SciTec's positioning.
• Palantir Technologies: Palantir's Gotham and AIP platforms deliver multi-source data fusion and AI-enabled decision support across DoD and IC customers, with overlapping software-defined C2 and ISR analytics use cases against SciTec's CBC2 and FORGE Processing offerings.

Direct peers

• Booz Allen Hamilton: Booz Allen provides defense and intelligence community software analytics, data fusion, and AI/ML engineering services to similar DoD and IC customers, with comparable mission-processing and classified software factory capabilities to SciTec.
• SAIC: SAIC provides defense software engineering, missile-warning mission support, and space-ground systems integration to U.S. Space Force, Army, and the IC, closely mirroring SciTec's FORGE Processing, countermeasure test, and ISR product lines.
• Parsons Corporation: Parsons delivers defense software, missile defense, and C2 solutions to the DoD and intelligence community, with overlapping missile-warning and space-ground processing portfolios and a similar non-traditional-to-traditional contractor trajectory. Directly comparable to SciTec's FORGE and CBC2 work.
• Leidos Holdings: Leidos is a top-tier defense software and ISR analytics prime serving the DoD and IC, with material overlap in mission data processing, sensor exploitation, and intelligence analytics — the same buyer set and technology category as SciTec's FORGE/MDPAP and ISR lines.
• CACI International: CACI delivers defense C2, intelligence analytics, and electronic warfare software to the DoD and IC, with similar classified software factory operations and mission-processing focus to SciTec's CBC2 and FORGE work.

Broad incumbents

• RTX (Raytheon): Raytheon developed the FORGE Framework in partnership with the government and is a SciTec teammate on MDPAP, while also being a traditional prime in missile defense and space-ground processing where SciTec competes as a non-traditional supplier.
• L3Harris Technologies: L3Harris is a broad incumbent in space-based missile warning, OPIR sensors, and defense electronics, and is both a FORGE teammate to SciTec and a competitor on adjacent space-processing and tracking-layer programs.
• Northrop Grumman Corporation: Northrop Grumman is the SBIRS prime and SciTec's FORGE SSP partner, while also being the incumbent on legacy and next-gen OPIR missions that SciTec's FORGE Processing competes to modernize.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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