NOAA Sources Sought: Office of Space Commerce (OSC) System Integration and Cloud Management of the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS)

Notice ID: NOAA-TraCSS-SI-SS-2025

OSC is seeking a commercial System Integrator, including Cloud infrastructure and provisioning services, for the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS). The TraCSS fulfills the 2018 US National Space Council released Space Policy Directive-3 (SPD-3), which instructed the DOC to establish space traffic coordination service for space operators.

TraCSS is the Department of Commerce’s enterprise solution for ingesting, archiving, processing, and disseminating Space Situational Awareness (SSA) data and products. TraCSS provides conjunction analysis and warning services to satellite owner/operators and will expand its capabilities to encompass appropriate data and services for the launch and entry phases of missions. The system will store data from the Department of Defense, NOAA, commercial SSA data providers, satellite Owner/Operators (O/O). The TraCSS system will operate 24 hours per day, 7 days a week.

Specifically, the System Integrator shall be responsible for the services and service layers highlighted in Figure 2. The government cloud infrastructure is procured under a separate contract.  Detailed descriptions of these services are listed in Appendix C. The skill sets required to satisfy these requirements are listed in Appendix B.   The System Integrator is not responsible for the direct execution of the TraCSS mission but supports the mission operations team as a system administrator to ensure that the OASIS, SKYLINE and HORIZON components remain functional.

The System Integrator contractor is responsible for integrating, managing, maintaining, operating, and evolving the TraCSS infrastructure, which includes:

• Automated workflow execution of the TraCSS mission and delivery of TraCSS products and services which include the automated workflows for ensuring that other third-party software, including the presentation layer service.
• Enterprise Cloud Governance.
• All system APIs
• Developing and maintaining all of the services in Figure 2 assigned to the SI.

There are multiple instances of the system deployed including, for example, the DevTest environment and depending on the computational requirements, multiple instances of the operational environment …

Read more here.

🔊 Listen to Story