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  • Investment Summary Information
  • Investment Detail
  • Investment and Contracts
  • Historic CIO Rating
  • Investment Spending
  • Projects and Activities Detail
Section A: Investment Summary Information
Investment Name
NOAA/OSC/Civilian Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS)
Unique Investment Identifier
006-000350500

Investment Description

Space Policy Directive 3 issued in 2018 to establish a civil space traffic management/coordination capability to serve the commercial sector free of direct user fees. TraCSS is the Department of Commerce's enterprise solution civil space traffic coordination. TraCSS will ingest, archive, process, and disseminate Space Situational Awareness (SSA) data and products for space safety and sustainability. TraCSS will provide conjunction analysis and warning services to commercial satellite owner/operators to foster economic growth and technological advancement of the U.S. commercial space industry.
Agency Department of Commerce
Point of Contact Brian Epley - CIO
Investment Type Major IT Investments
Bureau National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Mission Support Not Applicable
Shared Service Category Not Applicable
Shared Service Identifier Not Applicable
TMF Initiatives
  • Not Applicable
FY 2025 IT Spending $23.22 M
Current CIO Rating 3
Data As Of: 03/31/2026

Total Projects

2

Cost Variance

  • 2Low
  • 0Medium
  • 0High

Schedule Variance

  • 2Low
  • 0Medium
  • 0High

Cost Variance

  • Low: Projects that have <10% Cost Variance
  • Medium: Projects that have ≥10% and <30% Cost Variance
  • High: Projects that have ≥30% Cost Variance
Cost Variance: ((Planned Total Costs - Projected or Actual Total Costs) / Planned Total Cost) x 100

Schedule Variance

  • Low: Projects that have <10% Schedule Variance
  • Medium: Projects that have ≥10% and <30% Schedule Variance
  • High: Projects that have ≥30% Schedule Variance
Schedule Variance: ((Planned Completion Date - Projected or Actual Completion Date) / Project Duration) x 100
Download: Project and Variance Source Data (CSV)
Date Investment First Submitted
09/13/2023
Date of Last Investment Detail Update
03/31/2026
Section B: Investment Detail
  1. Briefly describe the investment's return on investment, including benefits internal and external to the government and outcomes achieved or planned.
Section C: Investment and Contracts

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Contracts

Section D: Historic CIO Rating
Data Last Updated On: 09/14/2023
Section E: Investment Spending

Table 1: Distribution by Spending Type

Spending Type PY 2024 CY 2025 BY 2026
DME Costs 19.162 23.216 0
O&M Costs 0 0 0
Total 19.162 23.216 0

Table 2: Distribution by Cost Pools

Cost Pools PY 2024 CY 2025 BY 2026
External Labor 1.081 1.256 0
Facilities & Power 0 0 0
Hardware 0 0 0
Internal Labor 0.877 1.191 0
Internal Services 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Outside Services 17.204 20.769 0
Software 0 0 0
Telecom 0 0 0
Total 19.162 23.216 0
Cost PoolsCost in millions (M)

Table 3: Distribution by IT Towers

IT Tower PY 2024 CY 2025 BY 2026
Application 0 0 0
Compute 17.204 12.968 0
Data 0 0 0
Data Center 0 0 0
Delivery 0 0 0
End User 0 0 0
IT Management 1.081 6.557 0
Network 0 0 0
Output 0 0 0
Platform 0 2.5 0
Security & Compliance 0.877 1.191 0
Storage 0 0 0
Total 19.162 23.216 0
IT TowersCost in millions (M)
Data Last Updated On: 03/31/2026
Section F: Project Detail

Table 1: Project Details

Project Name Project UID Status Planned Total Cost ($M) Cost Variance (%) Planned Start Date Planned End Date Schedule Variance (%) Schedule Variance (Days) TMF Initiative
Establish TraCSS Cloud Hosting Infrastructure 3013505001 In Progress 2.74 0 2023-08-01 2025-08-01 0 0 Not Applicable
Build and Deploy TraCSS 3013505002 In Progress 26.88 0 2023-12-01 2025-08-30 0 0 Not Applicable
LowMediumHigh

Table 2: Project Related Details

Establish TraCSS Cloud Hosting Infrastructure
  1. Are information technology investments adequately implementing incremental development methodology? (Y/N)
  2. What is the frequency of incremental development iterations? (ex. 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months or greater)
  3. Please describe the iterative development methodology being employed. (500 characters or less)
    n/a
Build and Deploy TraCSS
  1. Are information technology investments adequately implementing incremental development methodology? (Y/N)
  2. What is the frequency of incremental development iterations? (ex. 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months or greater)
  3. Please describe the iterative development methodology being employed. (500 characters or less)
    n/a
Section G: Performance Metrics
Metric Description Performance Measurement Category Unit of Measure Reporting Frequency Agency Baseline Capability Measurement Condition Target 2025 CY Latest Actual Result Date of Latest Actual Result Met Target
Measuring the annual average of the weekly rate of ephemeris submissions from TraCSS system beta users who are satellite owner/operators (o/o) Strategic and Business Results Rate of ephemeris submissions from satellite o/o Annual 100 Over target 100 84 2025-09-30 N/A
This service metric measures the OSC customer experience with a minimum quarterly rate of one TraCSS beta user stakeholder listening session. Listening sessions are essential for TraCSS system capacity planning, service augmentation, and improving the overall customer experience Customer Satisfaction Number of listening sessions Annual 2 Over target 2 1.75 2025-09-30 N/A
This is the percentage of time during the month that the TraCSS system is available to users. Strategic and Business Results Availability Monthly 99.9 Over target 99.9 100 2025-11-30 MET
OSC will achieve an annual average of 1 posts to social media per quarter with TraCSS-related strategic communications Strategic and Business Results Number of posts to social media Annual 2 Over target 2 2 2025-09-30 MET
Measuring the system availability of the TraCSS Conjunction Assessment (CA) operations tool Strategic and Business Results Availability Quarterly 80 Over target 80 98.22 2025-09-30 N/A