---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 18341"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "18341"
heading: "Commercial Cargo Development program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/18341"
units:
  - "Chapter 159 — Space Exploration, Technology, and Science"
  - "Subchapter III — Development and Use of Commercial Crew and Cargo Transportation Capabilities"
---

# §18341. Commercial Cargo Development program


The [Administrator](/usc/42/18302.md?p=1) shall continue to support the existing Commercial Resupply Services program, aimed at enabling the commercial space industry in support of [NASA](/usc/42/18302.md?p=6) to develop reliable means of launching cargo and supplies to the [ISS](/usc/42/18302.md?p=5) throughout the duration of the facility’s operation. The [Administrator](/usc/42/18302.md?p=1) may apply funds towards the reduction of risk to the timely start of these services, specifically—

- (1) efforts to conduct a flight test;
- (2) accelerate development; and
- (3) develop the ground infrastructure needed for commercial cargo capability.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–267, title IV, § 401, Oct. 11, 2010, 124 Stat. 2820; Pub. L. 115–10, title III, § 302(f), Mar. 21, 2017, 131 Stat. 26.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2017—Pub. L. 115–10 substituted “Commercial Resupply Services” for “Commercial Orbital Transportation Services” in introductory provisions.