Programs at Catalyst Campus

Catalyst Campus played a supporting role for a small business during last Fall’s Air Force Space Pitch Day in San Francisco.  The Team won a contract to deliver an Advanced Concept Ecosystem for Space (ACES) tying together other prototypes on the Campus to create a Space Combat Range prototype operating red force and blue force spacecraft for dog fighting in space.  CCTI is providing the classified lab and lab manager and will be working on efforts to tie in more collaborators.

The Aegis Combat System is the Navy’s most modern surface combat system. It was designed as a complete system: the missile launching element, the computer programs, the radar, and the displays are fully integrated to work together. This makes the Aegis system the first fully integrated combat system built to defend against advanced air and surface threats.

The Catalyst Accelerator is a nationally acclaimed program promoting commercially-augmented technology advancement. The Accelerator has hosted over 85 companies around the globe who have successfully secured over $288M in follow-on funding from Government and private investment firms.

Air Force CyberWorx is a problem-solving organization that tackles tough challenges across the Air Force and the Joint community. It marries Design Thinking, a focus on User Experience, and collaboration with government, industry, and academia experts to refine problems, accelerate results, and deliver solutions. AF CyberWorx has delivered results in days what would have taken their clients several months to accomplish.  CTRAC, a Catalyst Campus Non-Profit, directly contributes to the success of the CyberWorx program.

A recent adopter to the Catalyst Campus is SMC’s Cross Mission Ground and Communications Enterprise with their SatOps Prototyping and Integration (SPI) program for Enterprise Ground Services (EGS). The EGS team is establishing an Applied Products Lab on the Campus to prototype new products for EGS and they will also be working with Space CAMP and Platform One and the dozens of their companies doing agile software development to deliver rapidly developed software applications.

Microsoft Software & Systems Academy (MSSA) provides transitioning service members and veterans with critical career skills required for today’s growing technology industry. MSSA runs two concurrent cohorts, through an 18-week training course, targeting high-demand careers in cloud development, cloud administration, cybersecurity administration and database and business intelligence administration. Program graduates are accorded an interview for a full-time job at Microsoft or one of more than 280 hiring partners, many of which are Fortune 500 companies. MSSA has a graduation rate of over 92%, and graduates earn an average starting salary of over $70,000.

Sprint Advanced Concepts Training (SACT) events provide a framework for integrated training across civil and military Space operations. Catalyst Campus contributes the essential collaborative environment for civil, military, industry and academia cohorts to collaborate during world-wide event execution. At the core of this environment is the Air Force’s cloud-based Unified Data Library (UDL), providing the common data layer for this week-long, around-the-clock, multi-national integrated Commercial Space Operations exercise. The commercial SACT served as an opportunity to prove the interoperability between U.S. government space organizations, allies, and commercial data providers.

U.S. Space Command conducts operations in, from, and to space, to deter conflict, and if necessary, defeat aggression, deliver space combat power for the Joint/Combined force, and defend U.S. vital interests with allies and partners.

Space impacts virtually every aspect of our daily lives.