SAIC and Amazon Web Services have secured a $4.8 million cloud services order from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide cloud hosting services for the Traffic Coordination System for Space, or TraCSS.
NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce, or OSC, said Wednesday SAIC and AWS will provide TraCSS services from October 2025 to October 2026. The order was made under a blanket purchase agreement and does not impact AWS’s existing cloud services agreement with NOAA, whose performance period will run until October.
In November 2024, the OSC conducted market research for possible sources of cloud infrastructure and provisioning services for TraCSS.
What Is TraCSS?
TraCSS is the civil space situational awareness system developed by OSC to provide civil and private space operators with basic space situational awareness, or SSA, data and services. The system is also designed to support spaceflight safety, space sustainability and international coordination.
TraCSS comprises three components: its data repository TraCSS-OASIS, SSA application services TraCSS-SKYLINE and its modeling, simulation and research environment and development and test environment TraCSS-HORIZON.
NOAA is applying a phased “crawl, walk, run” development approach to its TraCSS implemnentation to enable more commercial SSA data and services integration for each phase and avoid any disruption in providing basic SSA safety services.
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