SciTec Integrates GEO Wide Field of View Data Into Space Force FORGE Missile Warning System

SciTec, a Firefly Aerospace company, announced an operational milestone for the U.S. Space Force's FORGE system that incorporates data from Space Systems Command's Wide Field of View space vehicle in geostationary Earth orbit. The integration expands the system's observational reach and strengthens missile warning and defense for Space Force Guardians.

The milestone advances the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution, or FORGE, system developed by SciTec under Space Systems Command's System Delta 84. FORGE fuses data from multiple sensors to help Guardians detect, track, and analyze threats. The latest work builds on FORGE's second operational acceptance in September 2025, which fully transitioned mission data processing and framework services into operations.

The Wide Field of View sensor provides Overhead Persistent Infrared, or OPIR, coverage supporting the acquisitional, operational, and research and development priorities of the U.S. Space Force. Key data products from the sensor have been integrated into FORGE, providing persistent wide-area situational awareness and augmenting time-critical detection capability alongside the data SciTec processes from other missile warning and tracking satellites. SciTec is delivering the new capability directly into the operational workflows for Space Force Guardians.

The milestone advances SciTec's 259 million dollar FORGE Enterprise OPIR Solution contract, which provides advanced mission software that transforms raw OPIR sensor data into actionable insights. The applications run natively within the FORGE framework, enabling rapid integration of new data streams to support the Space Force's evolving OPIR mission needs. The integration further demonstrates FORGE's ability to scale without requiring infrastructure changes, a design feature central to the system.

"SciTec continues to advance FORGE as a modern and scalable system that is capable of ingesting and processing data from legacy and modernized third party sensors," said David Simenc, SciTec's President. "We're using AI and machine learning to ingest and process massive streams of data across all orbits in real time. The integration of this advanced GEO data further expands the field of view for operators and enhances their ability to quickly detect, track, and analyze threats."

SciTec is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Firefly Aerospace. The company has more than four decades of experience supporting national security missions with AI-enabled defense software and cloud-based, on-premise, and edge processing capabilities across missile warning and defense, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, space domain awareness, remote sensing, and autonomous command and control.

The company stated the milestone demonstrates the benefit of the modern, open architecture of the FORGE system to readily ingest new OPIR mission data and support time-critical mission needs. The flexibility of the design is described as essential for supporting the next generation of missile warning and battlespace awareness missions.

The source material does not name further milestones or scheduled decisions beyond the integration announced on October 28, 2026.