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FAA Administrator Stephen Dickson formally approved the reorganization of the Office of Commercial Space Transportation on the night before 2019-12-03.
The Federal Aviation Administration approved a reorganization of the Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) to improve efficiency amid growing launch activity.
The 2019-10-31 minibus also included the transportation, housing and urban development bill that funds the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
The spending bill includes $26,040,000 for the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation, compared to an administration request of $25,598,000 and $24,949,000 provided in the House’s version of the spending bill.
The 2019-08-27 flight was delayed by issues amending SpaceX’s experimental permit issued by the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
The FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation received more than 100 public comments during the current rulemaking process.
The FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation licenses U.S. commercial launches and reentries, including reusable Falcon 9 first stages and Dragon capsules operated by SpaceX.
As of 2019-08-15, the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation had received just over 20 substantive comments in the rulemaking process.
The FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation has experienced a tenfold increase in workload since 2012.
Since 2012, the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation has increased staffing by 40 percent.
The Federal Aviation Administration intends to complete a reorganization focused on efficiency in its Office of Commercial Space Transportation before seeking significant additional personnel.
The FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation intends to complete its reorganization by the end of the year.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) formally announced on 2019-07-22 that it was extending the public comment deadline for a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to streamline commercial launch and reentry regulations from 2019-07-30 to 2019-08-19.
The White House fiscal year 2020 budget request sought nearly $25,600,000 for the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
The House bill provides $24,949,000 for the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation, the same amount as in the final fiscal year 2019 appropriations bill.
An FAA authorization bill enacted in October 2019 authorized $33,038,000 for the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation for fiscal year 2020.
The Government Accountability Office recommended in a 2019-05-23 report that the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation better manage its workforce needs, including producing long-term projections of staffing requirements.
Exos Aerospace had previously postponed a planned 2019-01-05 launch because the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation was unable to modify their license to change wind-related safety calculations.
The FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation was not issuing new licenses or modifying existing licenses during the shutdown but was supporting commercial launches under existing licenses.
Wayne Monteith succeeds George Nield, who led the Office of Commercial Space Transportation for nearly a decade before retiring from the FAA in March.