GITAI USA

GITAI USA is the American subsidiary of GITAI Inc., a Japanese space robotics company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Tokyo, with its US operations based in Los Angeles, California. The company develops autonomous robots designed to perform assembly, inspection, and maintenance tasks aboard spacecraft without human intervention. On 24 April 2026 GITAI USA was named among eleven awardees of the US Space Force's $3.2 billion Other Transaction Authority pool for Golden Dome space-based interceptor prototypes.

GITAI's core product line centres on inchworm-style robotic arms and autonomous task execution systems capable of operating in the vacuum and radiation environment of low Earth orbit. The company previously completed in-orbit demonstrations aboard the International Space Station and secured contracts with NASA and commercial satellite operators. Its inclusion in the Golden Dome OTA pool alongside heritage primes Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman signals that the programme requires on-orbit robotic assembly and servicing capability, not solely kinetic interceptors.

As a relatively small non-traditional defence entrant, GITAI USA's Golden Dome participation represents a strategic expansion from the commercial and civil space market into national security space. OTA contracting removes the registration and compliance barriers that typically exclude non-traditional companies from Pentagon prime awards. GITAI USA's presence reflects the programme's deliberate effort to draw in specialist robotics capability that heritage primes do not possess organically.