GSAW is sponsored by The Aerospace Corporation in cooperation with:
- Air Force Space Command
- Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- University of Southern California, Center for Systems and Software Engineering
- Software Engineering Institute
- Institute for Software Research at the University of California, Irvine
- European Space Agency
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration