SpaceWERX
Provides space-focused startup routes and transitions for early prototypes, connecting teams to follow-on defense innovation contracts.
United Statesspacewerx.us
Annual funding$510M
Programs5
Active grants0
Total grants6
About
SpaceWERX is the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force and a division of AFWERX. It operates as a federal funding and transition channel for small businesses building dual-use space technologies, and the record places its FY2025 throughput at roughly $510 million across about 300 contracts.
Its core routes are the SBIR/STTR phases and the scale-up overlays that sit on top of them: Phase I, Phase…