With over 4,000 employees, Aerospace Corporation operates the only federally funded research and development center for the space enterprise, providing objective technical analyses and assessments to a variety of government, civil, and commercial customers. Their technical experts cover all aspects of space-related science and engineering, working with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, NASA, NOAA, and other federal agencies, as well as the commercial world, to advance space innovation and serve the public interest. The corporation is managed by a board of trustees and is headquartered in El Segundo, California, where they bring their deep knowledge of space technology to benefit the nation's missions in space.