Defense company christens new Colorado Springs headquarters
Christian Murdock, The tribune
What’s the best way to learn to pilot a complicated, multi-billion dollar satellite? Make it a game.
That’s what Colorado Springs based defense company Auria is doing with one of its recent projects. The Battlespace Operational Readiness Game allows users at the National Space Defense Center and other government workers to learn how to work with the company’s satellite system through visualization and traditional gameplay, including a leaderboard.
Attendees could try out the BORG at Auria’s Thursday ribbon cutting at the company’s new 17,000 square-foot headquarters facility on the northeast corner of Voyager and Research parkways. The project is one of several that the company has taken on since merging four businesses into one.
Auria is the new incarnation of Boecore, a Colorado Springs based aerospace defense company sold to Enlightenment Capital by owner Kathy Boe. In 2023, Boecore, now Auria, added Ascension Engineering Group, Orbit Logic, and La Jolla Logic — bringing the company’s total workforce across multiple states to 420 employees.
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The company focuses on software development, system engineering and cybersecurity. Last year the Colorado Economic Development Commission approved up to $7,499,388 in financial incentives for Auria’s expansion in performance-based Job Growth Incentive Tax Credits over an 8 year period.
Auria predicted the creation of 600 jobs and a nearly $8 million remodel of the headquarters facility over that period. As of the ribbon cutting, Auria president Tom Dickson said the company was “starting out a little slow this year” after delayed passing of the U.S. defense budget.
“Some of our projects are a little bit delayed, but we’re still on target to continue to grow and expand to that size. That’s our goal,” he said.
The company has also not yet built a SKIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) that is a requirement for certain classified projects. Dickson said that the current timeline for the completion of the SKIF room is about a year.
He said that the company, which currently occupies half of the headquarters facility, hoped to add 50 jobs this year.
“Obviously that depends on winning new work, but we’re building out the classified space that’s kept us from winning some work in the past,” he said.
Dickson said that in addition to the BORG project, Auria was also working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to revamp the agency’s satellites and optimize efficiency.





