General Policy Issues
Space Industrial Base
In 2007, the National Security Space Office (NSSO) and the Air Force partnered with the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) to conduct a comprehensive survey of the U.S. space industrial base. The Office of Space Commercialization worked with BIS to identify companies to participate in the survey and to provide key inputs and guidance into the survey and final report.
Among other things, the survey data showed that most R&D spending and innovation is done by small and medium space companies. The survey also collected information on the impacts of export controls on the industrial base. The BIS data was presented to the Space Industrial Base Council (SIBC) of the NSSO in June and was used in the Defense Industrial Base Assessment Report of the U.S. Space Industry issued by the Air Force in August 2007.
Download the report at DOC.gov... Learn more about BIS... Visit the NSSO website...On June 25, 2010, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) submitted a report to Congress on the health of the U.S. space industrial and supplier base. The report identifies many challenges faced by the second and third tier suppliers to the domestic space industry.
Download the report at NRO.gov...In July 2010, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) initiated an assessment of the U.S. industrial base that supports NASA. The goal is to understand the impacts resulting from both the retirement of the Space Shuttle program and NASA's transition from the Constellation program.
To conduct the assessment, BIS deployed a survey to over 1,300 companies on July 12, 2010. Response to the survey is mandatory under BIS's authority under the Defense Production Act of 1950.
Learn more and view the survey at the BIS website...
