Infographic of TraCSS Accomplishments – FY23 to Mid-FY24
The Office of Space Commerce has released an infographic about its Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS), the IT system it is developing to provide space situational awareness (SSA) information to the public.
The infographic provides a high-level summary of TraCSS program accomplishments from the beginning of Fiscal Year 2023 (October 2022) through mid-May 2024. The full text of the infographic is provided below.
TraCSS Accomplishments
Development
FY23
- RFI on scope of basic SSA services
- Defined architecture
- Cloud utility contract award (AWS, $1.2M)
- RFI for system integrator
- Commerce IT Review Board approval as a major IT system
FY24 (thru May)
- Hosting agreement for primary ops center (Boulder)
- Completed Agile training
- Cloud provisioning for pathfinders
- Milestone 2 Review Board & Deputy Secretary of Commerce Authority to Proceed
- System integrator
- Contract award (Parsons, $15.5M)
- Onboarding
- Presentation layer/user interface
- RFI
- Call for vendor demos
- Received/evaluated 29 vendor demos
- Beta users kickoff
Industry Partnership
FY23
- MEO/GEO pilot contract awards
- SSA CEO roundtable
- Satellite owner/operator workshop
- SSA provider workshop
- MIT Lincoln Labs project to purchase & evaluate commercial SSA data
- Public video on TraCSS development plan
FY24 (thru May)
- CRADA with SpaceX
- Stakeholder listening sessions
- Consolidated Pathfinder (5 companies, $15.5M)
DoD Collaboration
FY23
- DoD-DOC MOA implementation
- Data exchange working group
- State management working group
- Personnel exchange agreement
FY24 (thru May)
- Machine-to-machine data transfer working group
- DoD-DOC operations transition working group
- Annex A (data transfer requirements) to DoD-DOC MOA
Policy & Personnel
FY23
- Onboarded Chief Engineer
- Increased staffing to 3
- 2 feds, 1 contractor
FY24 (thru May)
- Legislative proposal to authorize DOC to provide SSA
- OSC rep embedded at USSF Space Delta 2 (Vandenberg)
- Established Independent Review Board
- Released “Vision for Global SSA Coordination”
- Increased staffing to 12
- 7 feds, 5 contractors
Traffic Coordination System for Space, NOAA Office of Space Commerce, May 2024