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H.R. 5345 — what changed

American Leadership in Space Technology and Advanced Rocketry Act

From Introduced in House to Engrossed in House. 2 sections amended between Introduced in House and Engrossed in House.

Sec. 2 Findings

Congress finds the following:

(1)
changed Rocket Non-military rocket propulsion is an enabling technology for our Nation’s future prosperous way of life.
(2)
changed Rocket Non-military rocket propulsion technologies are critical to national security, intelligence gathering, communications, weather forecasting, navigation, communications, entertainment, land use, Earth observation, and scientific exploration.
(3)
changed The non-military rocket propulsion industry is a source of high-quality jobs.
(4)
changed Multiple Federal agencies and companies are involved in non-military rocket propulsion research, development, and manufacturing.
(5)
changed Integration, coordination, and cooperation would strengthen the United States non-military rocket propulsion industrial base.
(6)
changed Erosion of the non-military rocket propulsion industrial base would seriously impact national security, space exploration potential, and economic growth.
(7)
The Marshall Space Flight Center has decades of experience working with other Government agencies and industry partners to study and coordinate these capabilities.
(8)
The Marshall Space Flight Center has made historic and unique contributions—
(A)
changed by bringing stakeholders together to work on non-military rocket propulsion industrial base sustainment;
(B)
of technical expertise to key studies and review boards; and
(C)
changed by consistently participating in interagency working groups to address non-military rocket propulsion issues.

Sec. 3 Non-military rocket propulsion leadership

(a)
changed Sense of Congress— It is the sense of Congress that the Marshall Space Flight Center is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s lead center for non-military rocket propulsion and is essential to sustaining and promoting U.S. United States leadership in non-military rocket propulsion and developing the next generation of non-military rocket propulsion capabilities.
(b)
changed Leadership in non-Military rocket propulsion— The Marshall Space Flight Center shall provide national leadership in NASA in non-military rocket propulsion by—
(1)
changed contributing to interagency coordination for the preservation of critical national non-military rocket propulsion capabilities;
(2)
collaborating with industry, academia, and professional organizations to most effectively use national capabilities and resources;
(3)
changed monitoring public- and private-sector non-military rocket propulsion activities to develop and promote a strong, healthy non-military rocket propulsion industrial base;
(4)
changed facilitating technical solutions for existing and emerging non-military rocket propulsion challenges;
(5)
changed supporting the development and refinement of non-military rocket propulsion for small satellites;
(6)
changed evaluating and recommending, as appropriate, new non-military rocket propulsion technologies for further development; and
(7)
changed providing information required by national decisionmakers decision makers so that policies and other instruments of the Government support the development and strengthening of the Nation’s non-military rocket propulsion capabilities throughout the 21st century.