{"id":17115,"date":"2025-06-11T21:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/integrate-wins-25m-space-force-contract-for-super-secure-project-management-tool\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T21:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:59:57","slug":"integrate-wins-25m-space-force-contract-for-super-secure-project-management-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/integrate-wins-25m-space-force-contract-for-super-secure-project-management-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrate wins $25M Space Force contract for super-secure project management tool"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Integrate is supporting the modernization of program execution across space missions with tools designed for speed, transparency and interoperability. (Integrate Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seattle-based Integrate has been awarded a $25 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to support the deployment of its multiplayer project management software for government teams \u2014 and for the commercial space contractors they\u2019re working with.<\/p>\n

The award marks a new chapter for the startup. It\u2019s also a new chapter for the Space Force, which is keen to upgrade its tools for keeping track of high-stakes space initiatives such as the National Security Space Launch program.<\/p>\n

Integrate CEO and co-founder John Conafay said his company\u2019s software is analogous to \u201cGoogle Docs for project management.\u201d However, the mission gets more complicated when the software has to work in the secure environment required for national security projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe get very, very detailed and security-conscious with our permissioning and the way it\u2019s laid out,\u201d he told GeekWire. The tool is built so that multiple stakeholders in a project can see \u201cexactly what they need to see at any given time, and can adjust it so you don\u2019t have to wait for multiple weeks or multiple months to find out you have a three-month delay to your schedule,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Integrate CEO John Conafay. (Integrate Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The software has been built from the ground up on AWS GovCloud to operate in classified and hybrid environments. Integrate says it\u2019s already being used by early adopters \u2014 including the managers of an active mission to send astronauts to the International Space Station, and a company that is building one of the world\u2019s largest satellite constellations. Conafay declined to name those customers, but it doesn\u2019t take much imagination for space industry observers to guess who they might be.<\/p>\n

The newly announced Space Force award follows up on a $1.25 million contract that Integrate won in 2023 to support launch mission management and coordination at the Space Systems Command\u2019s Mission Manifest Office. Now the Mission Manifest Office is kicking things up a notch with the new five-year contract.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a fully commercial contract, which means they\u2019re purchasing licenses and services with operational funds,\u201d Conafay said. \u201cA very small part of the contract is to build a few features for them specifically, but they\u2019re all applicable to our commercial applications as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conafay noted that the applications aren\u2019t limited to the space frontier. \u201cWe\u2019re speaking to multiple automotive companies, both electric and not, who see a pretty significant application for this \u2014 anybody who\u2019s dealing with hundreds if not thousands of supply-chain partners and needs to keep them coordinated,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had customers in renewables and maritime as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Space Force contract will allow Integrate to expand its workforce. \u201cWe\u2019re at about 13 people right now,\u201d Conafay said. \u201cWe\u2019re hiring four on top of that so that we can deliver faster \u2014 you know, \u2018underpromise and overdeliver\u2019 to the Space Force and our stakeholders, who have been just incredible to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s already been quite a ride for Conafay, whose r\u00e9sum\u00e9 includes stints at the U.S. Air Force and at a series of commercial space ventures. In the three years since he and his fellow co-founders started up the company in 2022, Integrate has raised about $5 million in investment \u2014 and has started turning a profit.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing profitable in three years for a venture-funded software startup is no small feat, much less with government,\u201d Conafay said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Integrate is supporting the modernization of program execution across space missions with tools designed for speed, transparency and interoperability. (Integrate Photo) Seattle-based Integrate has been awarded a $25 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to support the deployment of its multiplayer project management software for government teams \u2014 and for the commercial space contractors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4382,4383,332,4329],"class_list":["post-17115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-integrate-space","tag-project-management-software","tag-space-force","tag-startups"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}