The agency says it would be too disruptive to compete a new contract right now as the facility takes on more launches including commercial and hypersonic vehicles.
The space agency is searching for a small business that can help create and apply technologies for addressing issues related to Earth's natural resources.
The company is tasked with using artificial intelligence to analyze 4.5 million nightly observations from a global sensor network that tracks 14,500 satellites and other objects in space.
Space and aerospace industry feedback from a series of government-run workshops noted that such threat intelligence is difficult to translate into actionable cyber efforts.
The service branch hires a pool of companies to help it manage all phases of program lifecycles that include technology development and anomaly resolution, among others.