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The Office of Space Commerce plans to build an open architecture data repository that will combine Defense Department space situational awareness data with data from commercial and international partners.
For fiscal year 2021, the Trump administration requested $15,000,000 for the Commerce Department’s Office of Space Commerce to help fund a transition of civil space traffic management responsibilities.
The Commerce Department is seeking to use the NAPA study’s endorsement to increase support for Office of Space Commerce funding in FY-21 appropriations.
A spending bill that passed the House in July 2020 rejected the president’s $15,000,000 funding request for the Office of Space Commerce.
The open architecture data repository is intended to be a platform from which the Office of Space Commerce and others can create new space situational awareness services.
The Office of Space Commerce plans to develop an open architecture data repository that would combine Defense Department space situational awareness data with commercial and international sources.
Congress had not appropriated the $15,000,000 authorized for the Office of Space Commerce in fiscal year 2021 as of the bill introduction.
The SPACE Act authorizes $15,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce for fiscal year 2021, matching the amount requested by the Commerce Department in its budget proposal.
The Office of Space Commerce aims to have an initial version of the open architecture data repository operational by the end of 2021 and producing conjunction warnings similar to those the Defense Department currently provides to satellite operators.
The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) study released 2020-08-20 concluded that the Office of Space Commerce was the best agency to perform civil space traffic management, ranking it ahead of the Defense Department, the Federal Aviation Administration, and NASA.
A House spending bill passed in July 2020 rejected the Commerce Department’s $15,000,000 Office of Space Commerce request pending a final report requested by a fiscal year 2020 spending bill to examine which agency was best suited for civil space traffic management.
Space Policy Directive 3, signed in June 2018, called for the Commerce Department, through its Office of Space Commerce, to take on civil space traffic management responsibilities then handled by the Department of Defense.
The Commerce Department requested $15,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce in its fiscal year 2021 budget proposal with the bulk of the funding designated for space traffic management work.
Kevin O’Connell is the director of the Office of Space Commerce and led Commerce planning that included developing an open-architecture data repository to host space situational awareness data from government and commercial sources.
The Commerce Department requested $15,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce in its fiscal year 2021 budget proposal, with most of that funding intended for space traffic management.
The National Academy of Public Administration released a report on 2020-08-20 concluding that the Commerce Department’s Office of Space Commerce was best suited to take on civil space traffic management and ranked it ahead of NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Department of Defense.
The $2,300,000 provided to the Office of Space Commerce in 2020 was $500,000 more than its 2019 funding.
The Commerce Department requested $15,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce in its 2021 budget proposal, with most of that funding intended for space traffic management.
The Commerce Department requested $10,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce in 2020 but received $2,300,000 for that office in 2020.
The Office of Space Commerce achieved an average score of 2.9 across all factors in the NAPA assessment.