Transitioning to Common Service Based Space-Ground Enterprise

Transitioning to a Common Service Based Space-Ground Enterprise

Ken Watts

NOAA / NESDIS / OCS

ABSTRACT

As a roadmap to implementation, NESDIS has identified a strategic objective to develop an 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:

1. Develop and evolve architecture for common services
2. Implement common services
3. Evolve Space-Ground Communications (SCM) to Common Services.

In service of these strategic objectives, NESDIS formulated the Commercial Services Integrated Product Team (CS IPT) whose members conducted a multi-year investigation of the commercial sector’s ability to support NESDIS’ transition to this enterprise ground system and assess value proposed by the private sector.

Market research gathered from CRADAs, BAAs and demonstrations conducted under the auspices of the CS IPT has now been formalized and incorporated into architectural recommendations that inform NESDIS ground enterprise developmental roadmaps and the transition to a common service-based ground system. The Office of Common Services has formulated an implementation plan to support this transition which includes an Antenna Common Service Architecture (ACSA) focused specifically on the establishment and provision of space-ground communications (SCM) and Mission Operations (MOP) common service capabilities.

The Office of Common Services (OCS) has now entered a transitional period focused on the architectural development, acquisition planning and buildout of next generation capabilities. New initiatives include initiation of NESDIS antennas as a Service (NAaaS), development of a cloud-based prototype satellite planning and scheduling capability, incorporation of software defined radios and continued investigation of high frequency band phased array antennas.

This presentation will provide an overview of these recent transitional activities as OCS pivots from market research to implementation of SCM/MOP common service capabilities.