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The final fiscal year 2020 spending bill rejected the proposed merger of the two Commerce offices and provided only $500,000 in additional funding for the Office of Space Commerce.
Patrick Sullivan, deputy director of the Office of Space Commerce, supports improving data about the size of the space economy and working closely with multiple bureaus to analyze that value.
A minibus spending bill released 2019-12-16 provides $2,300,000 for the Office of Space Commerce and $1,800,000 for the Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs office.
The Office of Space Commerce received $500,000 more in the minibus than it received in fiscal year 2019.
The Senate Appropriations Committee twice invited senior officials from the Commerce Department to offer public testimony on establishing an Office of Space Commerce within the Office of the Secretary, and those officials declined to testify both times.
The appropriations bill rejected the Commerce Department’s proposal to merge the two offices and instead kept the Office of Space Commerce and CRSRA separate and located within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The $500,000 increase for the Office of Space Commerce in the minibus was intended to support the independent study of the proposed transfer of space traffic management responsibilities.
The Commerce Department’s fiscal year 2020 budget proposal sought to merge the Office of Space Commerce and CRSRA and place them under the Office of the Secretary of Commerce with a combined budget of $10,000,000.
The Office of Space Commerce is implementing an open-architecture data repository designed to combine Air Force tracking data with data from other sources to identify potential close approaches.
Kevin O’Connell, director of the Office of Space Commerce, set a goal to transition commercial conjunction analysis and notification to the Department of Commerce by 2024.
The Office of Space Commerce requested $10,000,000 to create a new organization for space traffic management starting in fiscal year 2020.
The Commerce Department’s fiscal year 2020 budget request sought to combine the Office of Space Commerce and the Office of Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs and move them from NOAA to the office of the Secretary of Commerce as part of an overall $10,000,000 request for the office.
The House bill retained the Office of Space Commerce and the Office of Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs as separate entities within NOAA and funded each office at $1,800,000.
Space Policy Directive 2, signed by President Trump in May 2018, directed regulatory reforms ranging from launch to commercial remote sensing and consolidated much of that regulatory oversight in the Department of Commerce and its Office of Space Commerce.
The Office of Space Commerce plans, in partnership with the Department of Defense and other federal agencies, to assume no later than 2024 responsibility to provide conjunction analysis and other basic space flight safety services to civil and commercial users.
The Commerce Department’s Office of Space Commerce could develop industry data and sensible metrics to support institutional investment in the space sector.
The Office of Space Commerce's advocacy role includes international efforts to ensure American companies have fair market access and domestic efforts to provide companies fair and rigorous treatment as the U.S. government develops its own space capabilities.
Kevin O'Connell began his tenure as director of the Office of Space Commerce six weeks before 2018-08-20.
NASA will work with the Secretary of Transportation to support launch licensing reform and with the Commerce Department on consolidation of other regulatory activity within the Office of Space Commerce.
The National Space Council approved a set of recommendations for commercial space regulation at its 2018-02-21 meeting that include consolidating regulation within the Office of Space Commerce and giving that office oversight of non-traditional commercial space activities.