OSC Seeks Information from Vendors on TraCSS Presentation Layer

RFI Posted by the Office of Space Commerce

The Office of Space Commerce (OSC) has published a request for information (RFI) soliciting input from vendors seeking to develop or provide the user interface and front end for the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS).

The government is seeking information on both the development of a fully government owned “TraCSS Presentation Layer” and the potential for acquiring an existing capability. Regardless of acquisition approach, the government desires to maintain an enduring competitive environment for presentation layer vendors.

According to the FRI, OSC is seeking commercial System Integrator and Cloud Management Services for the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) (formerly called Open Architecture Data Repository (OADR)). The TraCSS will be developed to fulfill the 2018 US National Space Council released Space Policy Directive-3 (SPD-3), which instructed relevant US government agencies to begin re-assigning many aspects of space traffic management (STM) and space traffic coordination (STC) serving non-military US space operators. This was identified as an intergovernmental approach, and the organization identified to lead many of the efforts was NOAA OSC, in the US Department of Commerce (DOC). TraCSS is the Department of Commerce's enterprise solution for ingesting, archiving, processing, and disseminating Space Situational Awareness (SSA) data and products. TraCSS will provide conjunction analysis and warning services to commercial and civil satellite owner/operators to promote spaceflight safety and foster economic growth and technological advancement of the U.S. commercial space industry. The system will store data from the Department of Defense, Department of State, NOAA, commercial SSA data providers, commercial and civil satellite Owner/Operators (O/O) and select international civil partners. The TraCSS system will operate 24 hours per day, 7 days a week.

The government intends to operate presentation services on a government owned and operated System Integration Platform based on containerized microservices, i.e., modular data-centric components that separate concerns. The government intends to use the System Integration Platform running in a commercial cloud provider to integrate components from multiple vendors to form the operational TraCSS system. The government is seeking information on both the development of a fully government owned TraCSS Presentation Layer and the potential for acquiring an existing capability.

Responses are due Tuesday, October 31, 2023.

(Source: Office of Space Commerce)