The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has begun soliciting information on a new licensing system for the Office of Space Commerce’s Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs, a.k.a. CRSRA, as part of efforts to automate workflows and improve communication security with licensed entities.
CRSRA issues licenses for the operation of space-based remote sensing systems and monitors licensees’ compliance with the terms of their licenses, laws and other regulations.
According to a request for information published Friday, CRSRA wants input on industry concepts of a licensing system that combines automated or semi-automated licensing process workflows and self-service capabilities with records management and analysis functions.
Interested vendors are encouraged to provide a description of their software architecture and recommended platforms that could meet the five envisioned functions of the licensing system: licensing process automation, licensee self-service, records management, records analysis and system governance.
CRSRA has asked stakeholders to describe how their proposed architecture could meet each of the eight notional architecture properties outlined in the RFI: data centric; modular; well-defined application programming interfaces; containerized or containerizable components; open source software; cloud-based system that is provider-agnostic; monitoring and managing system component interactions; and controlled access.
Responses to the RFI are due Nov. 17.
