The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest component of the Executive Office of the President. It assists the President in overseeing the preparation of the federal budget and in supervising its administration across Executive Branch agencies, including NASA. OMB assesses the effectiveness of agency programs, policies, and procedures, weighing competing funding demands and helping to set funding priorities related to space activities. Keywords associated with OMB include federal budget, program management, regulatory policy, and executive oversight.
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The Office of Management and Budget transmitted the Fiscal Year 2027 Presidential Budget Request to Congress on April 4, 2026.
The Planetary Society criticized the budget proposal and said the Office of Management and Budget was out of step with bipartisan support for NASA.
Rep. Mike Haridopolos has been in communication with the White House and the Office of Management and Budget on NASA funding.
The highest priority data needs were identified by the interagency Satellite Needs Working Group convened by the White House Office of Management and Budget and Office of Science and Technology Policy.
A report from the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in September revealed that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directed NASA to implement cuts to outlined programs in the budget proposal.
A September report by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation found that the White House Office of Management and Budget has been directing NASA to make cuts to programs in the proposed 2026 budget.
The White House Office of Management and Budget proposed a 47% cut to NASA’s science programs on May 30.
The Office of Management and Budget's proposed budget cuts would reduce NASA’s overall budget by 20% and its science budget by nearly 50% in fiscal year 2026.
The 2024-02-01 letter to Shalanda Young, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, concerns cuts to the Mars Sample Return program.
The White House Office of Management and Budget approved the legislative proposal before its submission to Congress on 2023-04-12.
The Greenhouse Gas Monitoring and Measurement Interagency Working Group was established in January 2022 and is led by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Office of Management and Budget and the White House Climate Policy Office.
Bill Nelson stated that NASA is working with the White House’s Office of Management and Budget on its fiscal year 2024 budget request that will be released next February.
The White House Council on Environmental Quality and the Office of Management and Budget sought public input on the plans released by NASA and other agencies with a comment period open until 2021-11-06 via docket Docket ID: CEQ–2021–0003.
The Biden administration’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, was awaiting Senate confirmation as the 2021-10-01 budget process remained delayed.
Russell Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, sent a 2020-11-30 letter to Sen. Richard Shelby addressing issues with the fiscal year 2021 spending bills.
The Office of Management and Budget review of the FAA launch and reentry regulations was completed on 2020-09-30, according to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs website.
FCC commissioners approved the new streamlined smallsat licensing regulations in August 2024, after which the rules underwent a congressional notification process and Office of Management and Budget review of information collection requirements.
The Office of Management and Budget objected to an Air Force recommendation that Congress incrementally appropriate funding for large satellite programs rather than fully funding the entire cost in the year the satellite is ordered.
The Office of Management and Budget requested $25,246,000,000 for NASA for fiscal year 2021 in a budget proposal released 2020-02-10.
Russell Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in an October letter that the SLS has an estimated cost of over $2,000,000,000 per launch once development is complete.