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The omnibus spending bill provides $16,000,000 for the Commerce Department’s Office of Space Commerce, which is $6,000,000 above the fiscal year 2021 level.
The open architecture data repository is intended to combine data from several sources to handle space traffic management responsibilities that the Commerce Department will take over from the Defense Department in 2024.
Space Policy Directive 3 assigned the Commerce Department responsibility for civil space traffic management in 2018 and instructed the government to provide basic data and services, including conjunction and reentry warnings, free of direct user fees while allowing commercial services.
The Trump administration assigned the Commerce Department responsibility for creating a civilian space traffic management organization in 2018.
The Commerce Department unveiled a prototype for the open architecture data repository (OADR) on 2022-02-11.
Fidelity Investments does not appear in the Alaska Department of Commerce list of SpaceX investors despite prior reports of discussions to invest $1,000,000,000 in SpaceX.
Alaska’s Department of Commerce released background data on SpaceX’s financial structure for 2022 as of 2021-12-31.
The Trump administration ordered the transfer of spaceflight safety responsibilities from U.S. Space Command to the Department of Commerce in a 2018 policy directive.
The U.S. Commerce Department released streamlined remote sensing regulations in 2020 that established a three-tiered licensing approach for commercial remote sensing.
Tier Two under the 2020 Commerce Department regulations applies license restrictions to systems capable of producing data similar to what is available only from other U.S. sources.
Tier One under the 2020 Commerce Department regulations carries few restrictions and covers capabilities similar to what foreign vendors offer.
Space Policy Directive 3 in 2018 assigned civil space traffic management to the Commerce Department through its Office of Space Commerce.
The 2021-11-29 Senate letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo questioned progress appointing a new director for the Office of Space Commerce, a position that has been vacant since the beginning of the Biden administration.
The Department of Commerce plans to request increased funding in its 2022-10-01 budget request to increase staffing for the Office of Space Commerce.
Space Policy Directive 3 directed the Department of Commerce to take over civil space traffic management from the Department of Defense in 2018.
The U.S. Defense Department is working closely with the Department of Commerce and the intelligence community to strengthen space domain awareness and improve the ability to identify and attribute threatening behavior.
William A. LaPlante was a senior vice president and general manager at MITRE National Security, where he oversaw the operation of two federally funded research and development centers and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Transferring responsibilities to the Commerce Department would better separate civil and military roles, according to Maj. Gen. DeAnna Burt.
Maj. Gen. DeAnna Burt emphasized the importance of continuing space traffic awareness until the Department of Commerce is fully capable.
Maj. Gen. DeAnna Burt supports transferring civil space traffic management responsibilities to the Commerce Department.