NOAA Awards $4.8M TraCSS Cloud Services Order
Covers Cloud Services for FY2026
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has placed an order valued at $4.8 million to service the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS). TraCSS is the civil space situational awareness system being fielded by NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce to support spaceflight safety.
Under this order, Science Applications International Corporation, Inc. (SAIC) of Reston, Virginia, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) of Seattle, Washington, will provide cloud hosting services for TraCSS from October 2025 to October 2026. The award, made under a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA), does not affect the existing, separate cloud services agreement with AWS, whose period of performance continues until October 2025.
The award represents NOAA’s continued commitment to the TraCSS program during its agile development as a modern, cloud-based IT service serving global space operators.
Late last year, NOAA awarded a contract to Slingshot Aerospace, Inc., of El Segundo, California, to provide the website and user experience, or Presentation Layer, for the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS).
TraCSS is currently in Phase 1.0 of its roll-out. Nine satellite operators – NOAA, Maxar, Telesat, Intelsat, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Planet Labs, Eutelsat OneWeb, Iridium, and the Aerospace Corporation – are receiving validated safety notifications from TraCSS in the form of conjunction data messages (CDMs, alerts describing potential collisions). TraCSS will add satellite operators and provide more data and services as the program progresses.
In Phase 1.0, TraCSS provides CDMs for approximately 1,000 space objects six times a day. The CDMs generated by TraCSS Phase 1.0 are currently distributed to a set of beta users via the Space-Track.org website managed by the Department of Defense.