Auria, headquartered in Colorado Springs, acquired Virginia-based BCubed Engineering on Tuesday. It is the latest in a string of acquisitions by Auria in the first two months of the year.

Auria has grown from roughly 360 employees to 520 in less than two months at its offices in Colorado, five other states and Washington, D.C. The company plans to expand in Colorado Springs, with designs on creating 620 jobs in the next eight years.

From August 2023 until last September, the company hired between 20 and 30 people, according to an update in September.

The recent acquisitions have come as Auria positions itself as a key player in the command, control and communications field. The purchases will help it expand its reach in areas such as software-defined capabilities, with a focus on satellite communications.

Software-defined means that, rather than hardware limiting what something can do, software enables it to do more. Auria President Tom Dickson used a ground station antenna as an example.

“Instead of having individual hardware components … You have software that can switch between say, different bands, (like UHF),” he said. “The software actually does that switching and controlling for you and configuring it versus having multiple hardware devices.”

It is a way of using software to adapt one piece of hardware for multiple uses.

Auria has started 2026 on a purchasing streak.

In January, it purchased a pair of Maryland-based companies, RKF and Kythera. When combined with Tuesday’s deal, the trio of purchases supports Auria’s goal of gaining a larger market share of command, control and communications products, Dickson said.

Dickson added he is pleased with Auria’s trajectory to start the year. He declined to say how much the purchases were worth. Auria is a private company.

“We’re competing as a midsize company trying to disrupt the market of some of the larger businesses that have held some of this work for (a) long time,” he said Tuesday. “There is a big emphasis on the Space Force side, which is our largest customer, of using commercial products and using commercial solutions and nontraditional contractors.”

With its purchase of BCubed, Auria has addressed an area where it fell short in the bigger picture of command, control and communications offerings.

“Auria has long focused on delivering resilient C3 solutions for complex space missions,” Auria CEO Damian DiPippa said in a news release. “BCubed enhances our ability to provide integrated, software-defined capabilities that connect command authorities, ground infrastructure, and operators at the tactical edge into a single operational framework.”