Office of Space Commerce Posts Licensing RFI
Office of Space Commerce Posts Licensing RFI
Responses Due by November 17
The Office of Space Commerce has posted a Request for information (RFI) to gather information in support of a new licensing system for Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs (CRSRA). The goal is to improve communication security with licensed entities, automate workflows, facilitate record search and analysis, and provide licensees with “self-service” capabilities.
OSC welcomes industry comments, questions, and suggestions that will aid it in understanding industry capabilities and developing an acquisition strategy for CRSRA’s system. One of the principal outcomes of vendor/government engagement will be to ensure that alternate approaches that may reduce cost and budget, schedule, and technical risk are considered in the procurement. OSC may, therefore, utilize the information provided to refine its acquisition strategy to maximize competition among viable acquisition alternatives.
Multiple or alternative approaches are welcome. Although this RFI requests specific information, it is not intended to discourage creative thinking on the part of the industry to propose alternative solutions or approaches that OSC may not have considered.
According to the posting, CRSRA envisions a licensing system that allows license applicants, licensees, and federal officers the ability to initiate role-based automated and semi-automated custom workflows related to the licensing process. Such workflows may vary based upon the existence of certain conditions or criteria or may be event-based. Ideally, the system would be able to track process timelines and due dates. Based on such timelines and due dates, the system could send role-based notifications to different participants pertaining to items such as the initiation of a process the participant is involved in, an action that needs to be taken in the process and the due date of such action, and the status of an ongoing process.
CRSRA envisions that the licensing system will be able to integrate the search and report function with analytical capabilities. Examples of analytic tasks include process statistics, such as statistics on timelines to complete actions and statistics on numbers of actions or categories of actions taking place in a specific period of time (e.g., fiscal or calendar year). Analysis may also include quantitative analysis of numeric fields on forms (single- or multi-form analysis), or geospatial analysis based upon location data input into forms. Ideally, custom search-and-analysis workflows could be defined and saved for rapid access, or could run in real-time so that up-to-date analytics are always available and viewable through a dashboard.
Responses are due by 2:00 p.m. ET on Nov. 17, 2023.