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Participants in the 2020-05-04-7 conference workshop included officials from the Defense Innovation Unit, the Air Force Research Laboratory, the U.S. Space Force, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the National Space Council, NASA, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy, academia, and the private sector.
Congress rejected a $10,000,000 budget request for the Office of Space Commerce in fiscal year 2020 and directed the Commerce Department to undertake a study on the proposed transfer of space traffic management responsibilities.
Space Policy Directive 3, signed in June 2018, directed the Commerce Department to take the lead on civil space traffic management.
The Commerce Department requested $15,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce in its fiscal year 2021 budget proposal to support space traffic management work.
The Commerce Department’s 2021 budget request allocates the additional funding primarily to work on space traffic management in accordance with Space Policy Directive 3.
The Commerce Department is seeking $15,000,000 for the combined Office of Space Commerce and Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs in fiscal year 2021, up from the 2020 request of $10,000,000.
Space Policy Directive 3 from June 2018 directed the Commerce Department to take over civil space traffic management responsibilities from the Defense Department.
The U.S. Commerce Department is requesting a larger budget for its Office of Space Commerce in fiscal year 2021 to work on space traffic management activities.
Parts of the Commerce Department’s fiscal year 2021 budget proposal were not released with the rest of the White House budget request on 2020-02-10, and the Departmental Management section covering the Office of Space Commerce was released by 2020-02-14.
The Department of Defense will work with interagency partners led by the Department of Commerce to develop guidance that mitigates risks of disruption to critical infrastructure that rely on positioning, navigation, and timing services.
Under Space Policy Directive 3 issued in June 2018, the Commerce Department will take over civil space traffic management responsibilities.
The Commerce Department requested $10,000,000 in its fiscal year 2020 budget for the combined Office of Space Commerce and Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs, with much of the additional funding intended for space traffic management planning.
The Commerce Department authorized NOAA in 2019 to begin procuring elements of the SWFO program.
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 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.
Space Policy Directive 3, issued in June 2018, directed the Commerce Department to take over civil and commercial space traffic management from the U.S. Air Force.
The minibus encourages that the $1,100,000 cost of the independent study be split between NOAA and the Commerce Department’s management account.
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 Senate report directed the Commerce Department to contract with the National Academy of Public Administration to conduct an independent study, originally planned for one year, of the proposed transfer of space traffic management responsibilities.
Luxembourg signed an agreement with the U.S. Commerce Department in May 2019.