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The U.S. Space Force's partnership with RapidFort focuses on mitigating post-quantum encryption risks and reducing AI-driven software vulnerabilities in space systems. This collaboration aims to accelerate Authority to Operate (ATO) processes while integrating commercial open-source solutions into national security infrastructure. The initiative represents a critical step in hardening space assets against future cryptographic threats before quantum computers render current standards obsolete.
Space Force works with RapidFort on post-quantum encryption defenses

RapidFort and SpaceWERX entered a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to improve USSF cyber readiness, reduce AI software exploitation risk, and accelerate ATOs. The relationship addresses cybersecurity protection of space systems from post-quantum encryption risk, allowing Space Force personnel to field new software capabilities securely.
The U.S. Space Force is partnering with RapidFort through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to proactively address a looming threat to space-based assets: post-quantum encryption risk. This collaboration between SpaceWERX, the Space Force’s innovation arm, and RapidFort aims to accelerate the deployment of secure software while reducing vulnerabilities to emerging artificial intelligence-driven attacks, the company says. “Partnering with SpaceWERX through this CRADA represents a major…
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