Boston Cyber Firm SimSpace Makes Orlando Its New Global Command Center

SimSpace, a cyber range company that lets governments and giant corporations rehearse digital attacks before the real thing hits, is officially putting its global headquarters in Orlando. The company told attendees at its SimSpace Summit that the new base will anchor its push into AI-ready training, model testing, and large-scale cyber exercises. The shift adds one more notch to Central Florida’s belt as a rising hub for simulation, defense, and cybersecurity work.

In a Feb. 4 press release, SimSpace confirmed it is “relocating its global headquarters to Orlando, FL” and said the announcement was made on stage at the SimSpace Summit at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel, according to PR Newswire. The company said the new headquarters will feature roughly 7,000 square feet of collaboration-first workspace meant to support training, testing, and partner-led innovation. SimSpace also highlighted Cyber Florida and PCTE as among the academic and industry partners it expects to work with from its new base.

“Cybersecurity is entering an AI-driven era where training alone is no longer enough,” SimSpace CEO Peter Lee said in the release, via PR Newswire. He said the Orlando move puts the company closer to the customers, partners, and policymakers who are shaping what future cyber readiness will look like.

Why Orlando

SimSpace is pitching the relocation as a strategic call. The company says Florida’s integrated approach to cybersecurity, plus its academic and training networks, make the state a natural home for AI-ready cyber ranges, according to SimSpace. Local insiders point to Team Orlando, UCF’s Institute for Simulation & Training, and a dense defense-industry cluster as reasons the region can support large, complex cyber exercises, a case laid out in coverage by Innovate Orlando. That blend of talent and infrastructure is what boosters say separates Orlando from other cities that might have courted the company.

Local reaction

Central Florida outlets did not take long to jump on the story. WFTV reported that SimSpace is relocating from Boston and that the company’s leaders want to work with universities and even high schools to help train the next generation of cyber talent. Regional news aggregators quickly amplified the move as well, with Spot On Florida directing readers to the summit announcement at Loews Portofino Bay Hotel. State officials, quoted in SimSpace’s own materials, welcomed the decision and used the moment to promote Florida’s cyber network as a statewide asset.

The headquarters relocation caps a year of expansion for SimSpace. The company disclosed a $39 million financing round in October and has been marketing its cyber range as an AI testing ground for both defense and commercial clients, according to a company post on the SimSpace blog. From Orlando, SimSpace says its office will serve as a customer and partner hub for live-fire exercises, AI-agent validation, and larger-scale collaboration as it scales its services. For Central Florida, the move drops another headquarters into a region that already knows training and simulation and ties that expertise more tightly to federal and commercial cyber work.