SCADA is an internal component of the infrastructure of the Hashicorp Cloud Platform control plane and it stands for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition. It provides HCP with access to functions and data on HCP-managed clusters.
The provider package establishes and maintains a long-lived connection to allow incoming requests to be served by components running in relative network isolation.
SCADA is a variation on a NAT traversal technique.
It's in use internally at Hashicorp.