Defense technology company Raft has secured a $2.9 million contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to develop an application programming interface gateway for the cloud-based Unified Data Library.
The API gateway will turn legacy and current data messaging formats into modern API endpoints, addressing data access issues, SSC said Tuesday.
Space Force is still using legacy data messaging formats that modern API endpoints cannot read, making such data unusable. With the API gateway, the legacy formats will be transformed and translated into the latest formats automatically, allowing legacy systems to work with modern applications and enabling fast delivery of accessible and actionable data to warfighters.
How Does Enhanced Data Access Benefit Warfighters?
According to USSF Lt. Col. Dan Kimmich, Global Mission Data Dominance materiel leader for SSC’s Battle Management, Command, Control and Communication and Space Intelligence’s Program Executive Office, the capability to speed up information delivery will enhance mission readiness and turn the Digital Space Force Vision, which aims to establish the Space Force as a digitally dominant, innovative and interconnected service, into a reality.
Developing the API gateway also supports the Department of Defense’s effort to accelerate the turnover of scaled digital capabilities to warfighters and keep the U.S. military’s superiority on the battlefield and advances the implementation of the Space Force’s FY 2025 Data and Artificial Intelligence Strategic Action Plan.
Raft was awarded the contract through the Space Enterprise Consortium’s other transaction authority.
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