Capability Areas
What Direwolf delivers today, and what it is building toward.
Space Intelligence is the core business, and Space Domain Awareness and Space Security extend that analytic work into orbital activity and security threats. Advanced Systems is the future research and development arm, and nothing in it ships today.
Core business
Space Intelligence
Space Intelligence is where Direwolf starts and what it does today. A customer arrives with a question about a foreign space program, a spacecraft, or a technology. Direwolf researches it, assesses it, and delivers a professional intelligence product written for the decision the customer has to make.
What it delivers
- Foreign space capability assessments
- Military space program analysis
- Emerging technology assessments
- Counterspace and threat analysis
- Custom intelligence requests (RFIs)
- Executive briefings
- Tailored research
A representative question
What are Iran's current military-space capabilities, what systems are operational, and where is the program likely heading? Example customer question
The product that answers a question of this kind is a Foreign Space Capability Assessment.
Today
Assessments, program analysis, RFIs, briefings, and tailored research, delivered as finished intelligence products.
Next
The flagship Iran Foreign Space Capability Assessment, the master template for the assessments that follow. In development
Continuous activity analysis
Space Domain Awareness
Space Domain Awareness grows out of the intelligence work into continuous analysis of what is happening on orbit: spacecraft behavior, orbital activity, launches, constellations, unusual activity, foreign spacecraft, watchlists, and other relevant space-domain developments.
Direwolf is not trying to be another raw satellite-tracking company. The value is the intelligence layer on top of the orbital and technical data. Instead of merely reporting that a satellite moved, the product answers the questions that follow.
Satellite X moved.
Satellite X maneuvered, here's why it matters, which foreign program it belongs to, what similar spacecraft have done previously, what capabilities may be involved, and what we recommend watching next.
Activity on orbit
- Spacecraft behavior and orbital activity
- Launches and constellations
- Unusual activity and foreign spacecraft
- Customer watchlists
- Relevant space-domain developments
Inside products and monitoring
Activity analysis within assessments, RFIs, and briefings, and customer-specific monitoring and watchlists against Priority Intelligence Requirements.
Monitoring and watchlists NextThe planned analysis platform
The planned Space Intelligence Analysis Platform, developed first for Direwolf's own analysts to support this work.
Platform visionIntelligence and analysis
Space Security
Your mission depends on GPS, ground systems, and RF links you do not control. Space Security addresses the threats to those systems: the spacecraft, the ground segment, the links between them, and the positioning, navigation, and timing signals that other infrastructure depends on.
Direwolf's Space Security work is intelligence and analysis. It does not include satellite penetration testing, spacecraft security engineering, or specialized offensive or defensive spacecraft security services.
Areas of analysis
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Space cyber threat intelligence Cyber threats to spacecraft, ground systems, command and control infrastructure, telemetry networks, and other mission systems.
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Ground-system security and mission infrastructure The ground segment and the mission infrastructure a space system depends on.
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GPS, GNSS, and PNT threats Threats to the positioning, navigation, and timing signals that missions and other infrastructure depend on.
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RF interference, jamming, and spoofing analysis Analysis of interference against RF links and GNSS signals, including jamming and spoofing.
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Threats to critical space infrastructure Threats to the space systems that critical infrastructure and missions rely on.
Today
Threat intelligence and analysis
Threat intelligence and analysis on cyber, RF, and PNT threats to space systems.
Next
Space cybersecurity technology
Over time, space cybersecurity technology developed under the Advanced Systems roadmap.
Future R&D arm
Advanced Systems
Advanced Systems is where Direwolf will transition from a company that analyzes space threats into a company that builds technologies to understand and respond to them. Nothing in this area ships today.
The direction is set by the intelligence work. Problems that recur across customers become candidates for software. Software that makes Direwolf's own analysts substantially more efficient becomes a candidate for a product.
What it could eventually include
- AI-enabled intelligence software
- Space analytics platforms
- RF/PNT technology
- Cybersecurity products
- Sensors
- Government-funded research and development
- Ground systems
- Potentially, spacecraft technology
How the four areas connect
Customer problems drive the roadmap.
Direwolf does not begin by designing a spacecraft. It begins with intelligence, and it lets the work reveal what to build. Each step in the sequence is expected to fund and inform the next.
- Intelligence servicesAssessments, RFIs, briefings, and tailored research. The core business today.
- Learn customer problemsThe questions customers bring to an analyst define what is worth building.
- Recurring monitoringReporting and watchlists against customer Priority Intelligence Requirements.
- Internal softwareAnalysis tools developed first for Direwolf's own analysts.
- Commercial softwareTools that make analysts substantially more efficient become something customers can buy.
- Government-funded R&DPrograms such as SpaceWERX, SBIR, and STTR could fund technology development.
- Proprietary technologyAI-enabled software, RF/PNT technology, space cybersecurity technology, and sensors.
- Larger government and commercial programsThe national-security space and commercial programs the preceding steps are built to reach.
Next step
Start with the capability area closest to your requirement, or describe the requirement and let Direwolf propose the fit.
Direwolf responds by email to scope a briefing, an assessment, a monitoring requirement, or a training engagement.