Texas Space Commission
What to Know:
- The Texas Space Commission approved $9.3 million for UT Austin to establish a Space Domain Awareness Tools, Applications and Processing Lab supporting U.S. Space Force work.
- UT Austin and the Space Force describe the effort as part of an accelerator framework designed to move new space domain awareness software and analytics toward operational use.
- UT Austin said the lab is designed to run multiple cohort cycles that bring in private-sector teams for structured development aligned with Space Force priorities.
What to Know:
- The Texas Space Commission conditionally approved a $14.2 million award for Rice University to stand up a Center for Space Technologies within the Rice Space Institute.
- The Rice award completes the commission’s first $150 million round of awards, bringing the total to 24 projects.
- The commission said the Rice center is expected to focus on research and development, technology transfer, statewide partnerships, workforce training and space-focused education, with work tied to lunar exploration priorities.
The commission requires a CRM with recording, tracking and analysis capabilities that is scalable, user-friendly and fully customizable.
Established this year by the 88th Legislature, the Texas Space Commission is surveying the market for a scalable customer relationship management system.
