Full-Time
Senior Program Manager
National Security Programs
LeoLabs
51-200 employees
LEO satellite tracking and collision avoidance.
No salary listed
No H1B Sponsorship
Washington, DC, USA
Hybrid
Periodic travel to customer sites, company offices, and industry events is required.
US Top Secret Clearance Required
Bachelor's, Master's
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- A bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Aerospace, Physical Sciences, or a related field is required.
- At least 8 years of experience managing technical programs, customer-facing initiatives, or federal contracts is required.
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams in complex technical environments is required.
- Experience supporting Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, aerospace, space, or defense programs is required.
- Strong understanding of program management principles, lifecycle execution, and risk management is required.
- Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills are required.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment is required.
- Ability to obtain and maintain the required security clearance is required.
- Lead day-to-day execution of assigned programs as the primary interface to customer stakeholders.
- Manage program scope, schedule, cost, performance, risks, dependencies, and contractual deliverables.
- Develop and maintain integrated program plans, schedules, and executive-level reporting.
- Track performance against technical, financial, and contractual objectives.
- Identify and mitigate risks while driving resolution of program issues.
- Support contract administration, change management, and compliance requirements.
- Coordinate milestone reviews, demonstrations, and operational transitions.
- Serve as the primary customer-facing program lead across government and commercial stakeholders.
- Build and maintain trusted customer relationships throughout program execution.
- Lead program reviews, technical interchange meetings, and executive briefings.
- Translate customer mission needs into actionable program priorities.
- Coordinate execution across engineering, product, operations, business development, mission architecture, modeling and simulation, and program controls functions.
- Drive alignment across technical and operational teams to ensure successful delivery.
- Partner with Business Development and Capture teams on follow-on opportunities and contract growth.
- Support proposal development, customer presentations, and solution shaping.
- Provide customer and market insights to Engineering, Product, and Executive teams.
- Contribute to account strategy and long-term mission area growth.
- Represent LeoLabs at customer engagements and industry events as appropriate.
- Experience supporting U.S. Space Force, U.S. Air Force, Intelligence Community, NASA, or similar customers.
- Familiarity with Space Domain Awareness, Space Situational Awareness, space operations, radar systems, or missile warning missions.
- Experience supporting capture, proposals, or customer growth initiatives.
- Project Management Professional certification or an equivalent credential.
- Experience with cost-reimbursable, fixed-price, and time-and-materials contracts.
- An active U.S. security clearance.
- A master's degree in a relevant field.
- Existing relationships within the national security space community.
LeoLabs.Space provides satellite tracking, collision avoidance alerts, on-console payload identification, and mission risk assessment for operators, commercial users, and government clients in Low Earth Orbit. It uses a global phased-array radar network that continuously observes objects in LEO; its Vertex platform processes the data to track satellites, issue real-time warnings, and generate risk insights for decision-making. The company differentiates itself with an independent, wide-area radar network and end-to-end data delivery and risk assessment tailored for space operators and stakeholders. Its goal is to improve safety, reliability, and planning in LEO by giving timely, accurate information and tools to manage space traffic and mission risk.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Grant
Total Funding
$115M
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California
Founded
2016
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- January 2026 bookings exceeded $60 million, with U.S. government bookings up 180%.
- April 2026 Delta launch and December 2025 TraCSS licensing deepen federal adoption.
- SpaceWERX, NASA, and MDA engagements expand LeoLabs from SSA into missile-defense missions.
What critics are saying
- USSF and Commerce contracts concentrate revenue around a few government buyers and annual renewals.
- SpaceX Starlink conjunction volume and rival SSA vendors commoditize collision-avoidance data by 2027.
- If Chinese counter-space operators jam or degrade radars, LeoLabs loses custody and credibility.
What makes LeoLabs unique
- LeoLabs’ 2026 Delta platform turns radar data into actionable threat intelligence for militaries.
- Its global phased-array network tracks 99.3% of DoD public catalog objects.
- Scout mobile radars in the Indo-Pacific shorten deployment cycles from months to hours.
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↓ -3%Ex-Portuguese Space Agency chief's Neuraspace raises €15.6M to protect satellites with AI. August 5, 2026 * Portuguese space tech startup Neuraspace has secured €15.6 million in new funding from Lince Capital, Explorer Investments, Armilar Venture Partners and Portugal's Recovery and Resilience Plan. * Founded in 2020, the company provides AI Space Domain Awareness (SDA) and Space Traffic Management (STM) solutions, monitoring more than 600 satellites for commercial, institutional and defence customers. * The fresh capital will accelerate autonomous space operations, expand sensing infrastructure and strengthen its dual-use platform for defence and government customers. Space used to be big enough to ignore. It isn't anymore - and the woman who once ran Portugal's national space agency now runs the company betting that Europe needs its own eyes on orbit before someone else's do the looking for it. Neuraspace, headquartered in Coimbra with additional offices in Luxembourg and Germany, has raised €15.6 million to scale its AI Space Domain Awareness and Space Traffic Management platform. The round combines six million euros in private capital from Lince Capital, Explorer Investments, and Armilar Venture Partners with 9.6 million euros awarded under Portugal's Recovery and Resilience Plan. Founded in 2020 and incubated at Instituto Pedro Nunes, Neuraspace is led by CEO Chiara Manfletti, the former president of the Portuguese Space Agency and a former senior adviser to the director general of the European Space Agency. Armilar was Neuraspace's first institutional backer, putting in €2.5 million back in 2022 - this new round is roughly six times that size, and comes on the back of Armilar closing its own 120-million-euro Fund IV in November to back more Iberian What the platform does. Neuraspace fuses commercial and sovereign sensor data with orbit-determination modelling and AI risk assessment, giving satellite operators automated manoeuvre recommendations rather than manual collision-avoidance work. An operator managing dozens of satellites gets an automated flag and a suggested manoeuvre the moment a conjunction risk crosses a threshold, instead of an engineer manually cross-checking tracking data. The company has widened its scope beyond collision avoidance into contested-space threats - cyberattacks, GPS spoofing, and jamming - through its dual-use NeuraspaceDEF platform, built for defence and government customers alongside its commercial product. Neuraspace competes with US-based LeoLabs, which has raised roughly $120-130 million to date and holds contracts with the US Space Force, as well as Slingshot Aerospace, Privateer Space, and Kayhan Space. Most rivals stick to collision avoidance alone. Neuraspace's pitch is combining that with defence-grade threat intelligence in one platform, on the theory that space safety and space security stopped being separate problems a while ago. It's a similar sovereignty argument to the one playing out across Europe's defence tech sector, where the US still captures roughly 85% of NATO defence-tech venture funding, a gap funds like AVP and Earlybird's new 500-million-euro E2D vehicle are trying to close. The traction and the trajectory. Neuraspace says it now monitors more than 600 satellites for customers including Spire Global, GEOSAT, NanoAvionics, Sidus Space, U-Space, and the European Space Agency, alongside contracts with the Portuguese Air Force and NATO. The company was also recently selected as prime contractor by an unnamed European Ministry of Defence, with SpaceNews reporting Neuraspace deferred full details to a planned announcement in September. Revenue reportedly grew more than 350% over the past year, though that figure is company-reported and not independently verified. "Neuraspace has established itself as one of Europe's most promising space technology companies, combining outstanding technical execution with growing commercial traction in a market of increasing strategic importance," says Vasco Pereira Coutinho, CEO of Lince Capital Manfletti frames the raise as a shift in mission: "When Neuraspace was founded, our mission was to make space safer. That mission has evolved with the operational reality. Today, protecting satellites means addressing both accidental risks and intentional threats." European space ventures raised 1.4 billion euros in 2025, per ESA's Space Economy Report 2026, down 8% year on year but still the second-highest annual total on record, even as US space investment surged 177%. Neuraspace's raise lands as a test of whether Europe will fund its own orbital infrastructure at the scale the moment demands, or keep depending on capabilities built elsewhere.
LeoLabs deploys first mobile space tracking radar. LeoLabs deploys first mobile space tracking radar written 11 june 2026. In this section. Via Satellite reports, "LeoLabs has debuted a new mobile space domain awareness (SDA) tracking radar housed in a shipping container, deploying the first radar in the Asia-Pacific region." Full Story (Via Satellite)
LeoLabs has deployed Scout-S, a transportable three-dimensional search radar system designed to enhance space operations awareness for the US and allied forces. The system, valued at establishing a new class of rapidly deployable radar technology, can be housed in a standard 20-foot container and transported by land, sea or air. The first operational Scout-S system, deployed in the Indo-Pacific, began tracking satellites within hours of activation. It has demonstrated persistent tracking of Chinese reconnaissance satellites, including Yaogan military satellites between 800 and 1,000 kilometres, and China's Spaceplane, detecting objects as low as 230 kilometres. The deployment is supported by a US Space Force Tactical Funding Increase award and private investment. Scout-S extends LeoLabs' global radar network, which currently catalogues over 26,000 objects.
LeoLabs, a space domain awareness company, has appointed Jonathan Moneymaker as chairman of its board of directors. The company describes itself as EBITDA-positive and is evaluating strategic acquisitions as it expands across US and Allied defence markets. Moneymaker previously founded and led BlueHalo, scaling it into a multi-domain defence technology provider before its $4.1 billion acquisition by AeroVironment in 2024. His experience in combining organic growth with acquisitions will support LeoLabs' expansion strategy. The Menlo Park-based company operates a radar network providing real-time detection and tracking of objects in low Earth orbit. It has secured contracts with the US Space Force, international defence agencies and commercial satellite operators, and is expanding into missile defence capabilities.
What is Delta? LeoLabs unveils new ai-based space surveillance system. 9 April 2026 Credit: LeoLabs LeoLabs has unveiled Delta, an AI-powered space domain awareness platform that moves the company firmly into the defence and intelligence arena for the U.S. and its allies. Delta replaces LeoGuard for military users. Delta is LeoLabs' new flagship system for space domain awareness, replacing its earlier LeoGuard service. It is targeting national security missions rather than just satellite operators. The system uses the company's global phased-array radar network and commercial catalogue of low Earth orbit (LEO) objects to monitor satellites and debris in real time. Delta does more than avoid collisions. It analyses movement, flags unusual behaviour, and turns raw orbital data into alerts operators can quickly act on. By 2030, tens of thousands of satellites are expected to operate in LEO, including more assets from adversary nations. This growing congestion makes that kind of automation essential. From "where is it?" to "what is it doing and why?" Delta tracks specific manoeuvre patterns that can signal hostile intent, not just routine station-keeping. One key behaviour is "co-planar" manoeuvring. In this case, a satellite adjusts its orbit to share the same plane as a target spacecraft, enabling repeated close approaches, shadowing, or inspection. The system also looks for satellites that repeatedly close distance on high-value assets in ways that do not match their declared mission or typical operational profiles. To do that, Delta combines radar data with contextual information such as operator, nation, and mission type. This helps users distinguish between a drifting upper stage and a potential inspection or counter-space platform. Commercial data, military use. For years, space surveillance and threat assessment were mainly the job of military organisations like U.S. Space Command, using classified sensors and internal analysis tools. That system is now under pressure as satellite numbers grow and legacy architectures struggle to scale. LeoLabs and similar providers are stepping in with unclassified global radar coverage and cloud-based analytics that can be shared quickly among allied nations. Early reports suggest that allied countries in Asia and Europe have already integrated Delta into daily operations. This points to a genuine gap in existing capabilities. What this means for space security. The launch of Delta also underlines a broader shift. Space situational awareness is no longer only about safety; it is now clearly a defence and intelligence product category. Market leaders will be companies that evolve from selling raw tracking data to delivering actionable intelligence. Governments will keep their classified sensors and in-house analysis. But commercial tools like Delta are increasingly being used as complementary layers, especially for allied information-sharing and monitoring large, distributed LEO constellations. As more defence-oriented satellite networks come online, demand for systems that can pick out hostile behaviour from a crowded orbital environment is only set to grow. Last updated: 9th Apr 2026 Published by Natalia Nichyshyna