Through the NESDIS Cloud Archive Project (NCAP), NESDIS is building on previous cloud pilot efforts and making significant progress on delivering an end-to-end cloud archive prototype in late 2021 and operational cloud archive capability in 2022. Critical to the overall design is a clear mapping between the features being designed and the functional requirements driven by National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Open Archival Information System Reference Model (OAIS-RM), and the NESDIS vision for a consolidated cloud archive workflow. The mapping between these drivers and the features being developed using Agile methodologies will be reviewed, and a technical summary of NESDIS’ plans to implement data archiving using commercial cloud services will be provided.