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Senate appropriators offered $20,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce in the report accompanying their version of the fiscal year 2022 commerce, justice and science spending bill.
The House version of the fiscal year 2022 appropriations bill offers $10,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce without the Senate’s funding-withholding provision.
The $20,000,000 offered by Senate appropriators for the Office of Space Commerce is double the $10,000,000 the office received in 2021 and requested for 2022.
The Senate appropriations report withholds a quarter of the $29,500,000 allocated for executive leadership at NOAA until the Office of Space Commerce strategic report is delivered.
NOAA is evaluating alternatives for the organizational placement of the Office of Space Commerce, including merging it with NOAA’s Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs office, and is preparing an analysis of alternatives.
As head of the Office of Space Commerce, Kevin O’Connell led the Commerce Department’s efforts to take over civil space traffic management functions that were previously under the Department of Defense.
The Office of Space Commerce had been without a director for nearly 10 years prior to Kevin O’Connell’s selection in 2018 and operated with a very small budget and staff.
Congress provided funding to the Office of Space Commerce in its fiscal year 2021 spending bill to begin work on OADR pilot projects.
Kevin O’Connell, who led the Office of Space Commerce from 2018 until the end of the Trump administration in January, attributed delays on the OADR and other SPD-3 elements to insufficient funding and a very small office budget.
The SPACE Act incorporated into S. 1260 directs the Office of Space Commerce to handle civil space traffic management.
The Office of Space Commerce received funding in fiscal year 2021 to start taking on civil space traffic management responsibilities.
The Aerospace Industries Association, Commercial Spaceflight Federation, and Satellite Industry Association sent a 2021-03-09 letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo asking the Commerce Department to commit to continued support and funding for the Office of Space Commerce.
The Aerospace Industries Association, Commercial Spaceflight Federation, and Satellite Industry Association called for the Commerce Department to fund the Office of Space Commerce at a level reflective of its critical role supporting the space industry.
Space Policy Directive 3 in June 2018 directed the Commerce Department, through the Office of Space Commerce, to take over civil space traffic management work from the Defense Department, a transition that is ongoing.
Before 2021 the Office of Space Commerce received an annual budget of $1.8 million, and the fiscal year 2021 appropriations bill provided the office $10,000,000.
The committee requested that Secretary Raimondo provide by 2021-03-19 a detailed spending plan for the Office of Space Commerce, a list of the office’s employees and contractors with descriptions of their duties, a list of Office of Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs employees and contractors, and any documents related to transfer or potential transfer of employees or contractors between the two offices.
The Office of Space Commerce had requested $15,000,000 for civil space traffic management for fiscal year 2021.
Space Policy Directive 3 directed the Air Force to transition civil space traffic management activities to the Commerce Department’s Office of Space Commerce in June 2018.
The Office of Space Commerce received $10,000,000 for civil space traffic management in the fiscal year 2021 omnibus spending bill.
The Office of Space Commerce received an additional $500,000 in 2020 to fund a study on which agency is best suited for civil space traffic management work.