51 U.S.C. § 50702 — Establishment
submitted 16 years ago by Pub. L. 111-314 to r/title-51-NATIONAL-AND-COMMERCIAL-SPACE-PROGRAMS · 390 words · no verdicts yet
This law creates the Office of Space Commerce inside the Department of Commerce, led by a senior Director. The Office coordinates space policy and helps grow the U.S. commercial space industry through five listed functions and seven director duties.
(a) In General. This section creates an Office* of Space Commerce inside the Department of Commerce.
(b) Director. A Director leads the Office. The Director is a senior executive, paid at a Senior Executive Service level under section 5382 of title 5, as the Secretary of Commerce decides.
(c) Functions of Office. The Office is the main unit coordinating space-related issues, programs, and initiatives within the Department of Commerce. Its functions include: (1) fostering economic growth and technology advancement in the U.S. space commerce industry; (2) coordinating space commerce policy issues and actions within the Department; (3) representing the Department in developing U.S. policies and negotiating with foreign countries to promote U.S. space commerce; (4) promoting U.S. geospatial technologies tied to space commerce, working with relevant interagency groups; and (5) supporting federal work on Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing policy, including the National Coordination Office for that program.
(d) Duties of Director. The Director's main responsibilities include: (1) promoting commercial investment in space by gathering, analyzing, and sharing market information, and running workshops to raise awareness of commercial space opportunities; (2) helping U.S. commercial providers do business with the U.S. Government; (3) acting as an industry advocate inside the executive branch, pushing the government to use commercially available space goods and services wherever feasible; (4) making sure the U.S. Government doesn't compete with U.S. commercial providers for space hardware and services those providers already offer; (5) promoting exports of space-related goods and services; (6) representing the Department in developing U.S. policies and negotiating with foreign countries for free and fair international trade in space commerce; and (7) working to remove legal, policy, and institutional barriers to space commerce.
There is established within the Department of Commerce an Office* of Space Commerce.
The Office shall be headed by a Director, who shall be a senior executive and shall be compensated at a level in the Senior Executive Service under section 5382 of title 5 as determined by the Secretary of Commerce.
The Office shall be the principal unit for the coordination of space-related issues, programs, and initiatives within the Department of Commerce, including—
to foster the conditions for the economic growth and technological advancement of the United States space commerce industry;
to coordinate space commerce policy issues and actions within the Department of Commerce;
to represent the Department of Commerce in the development of United States policies and in negotiations with foreign countries to promote United States space commerce;
to promote the advancement of United States geospatial technologies related to space commerce, in cooperation with relevant interagency working groups; and
to provide support to Federal Government organizations working on Space-Based Positioning Navigation, and Timing policy, including the National Coordination Office for Space-Based Position,1 Navigation, and Timing.
The primary responsibilities of the Director in carrying out the functions of the Office shall include—
promoting commercial provider investment in space activities by collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information on space markets, and conducting workshops and seminars to increase awareness of commercial space opportunities;
assisting United States commercial providers in the efforts of those providers to conduct business with the United States Government;
acting as an industry advocate within the executive branch of the Federal Government to ensure that the Federal Government meets the space-related requirements of the Federal Government, to the fullest extent feasible, using commercially available space goods and services;
ensuring that the United States Government does not compete with United States commercial providers in the provision of space hardware and services otherwise available from United States commercial providers;
promoting the export of space-related goods and services;
representing the Department of Commerce in the development of United States policies and in negotiations with foreign countries to ensure free and fair trade internationally in the area of space commerce; and
seeking the removal of legal, policy, and institutional impediments to space commerce.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3408; Pub. L. 114–90, title III, §§ 301(c), 302, Nov. 25, 2015, 129 Stat. 720.)
- 2010Enacted · Pub. L. 111-314 · 124 Stat. 3408
- 2015Amended · Pub. L. 114-90 · 129 Stat. 720
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 111-314 on 2010-12-18.
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