Evaluating Utilization of Commercial Services for Satellite Mission Operations
Ken Watts
NOAA / NESDIS / OCS
ABSTRACT
As a roadmap to implementation, NESDIS has identified a strategic objective to develop agile, scalable ground capability to improve the efficiency of service deliverables to support data from all sources. Under this strategic objective, NESDIS has developed three sub-objectives, detailed below:
- Develop and evolve architecture for common services
- Implement common services
- Evolve Space-Ground Communications to Common Services.
In service of these strategic objectives, NESDIS formulated a Commercial Services Integrated Product Team (CS IPT) to investigate the commercial sector’s ability to support NESDIS’ transition to this enterprise ground system and assess value proposed by the private sector.
The CS IPT has utilized multiple non-traditional forms of market research to perform low cost assessments of commercially available services in furtherance of this Enterprise transformation. The Commercial Services IPT has leveraged tailored market research strategies to perform targeted analysis, firsthand evaluation of demonstrated technical maturity, identification of inflection points, security risks and costs associated with transition to an enterprise based Common Service platform.
The Office of Common Services (OCS) is currently executing multiple initiatives to further CS IPT market research and analysis in service of the above outlined NESDIS strategic objectives. OCS is conducting Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) demonstrations of cloud-based Software Defined Radio (SDR) capabilities, has recently concluded a phased array Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with L3Harris and is investigating the business case for instantiating commercially available cloud based Mission Operations (MOP) services with the NESDIS NCCF.
The presentation will provide an updated overview of these recent OCS Commercial Service IPT activities, outcomes, key insights and lessons learned.
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