---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 18372"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "18372"
heading: "Transitioning experimental research to operations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/18372"
units:
  - "Chapter 159 — Space Exploration, Technology, and Science"
  - "Subchapter VI — Earth Science"
---

# §18372. Transitioning experimental research to operations


The [Administrator](/usc/42/18302.md?p=1) shall coordinate with the [Administrator](/usc/42/18302.md?p=1) of [NOAA](/usc/42/18302.md?p=8) and the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the United States Geological Survey to establish a formal mechanism that plans, coordinates, and supports the transitioning of [NASA](/usc/42/18302.md?p=6) research findings, assets, and capabilities to [NOAA](/usc/42/18302.md?p=8) operations and United States Geological Survey operations. In defining this mechanism, [NASA](/usc/42/18302.md?p=6) should consider the establishment of a formal or informal Interagency Transition Office. The [Administrator](/usc/42/18302.md?p=1) of [NASA](/usc/42/18302.md?p=6) shall provide an implementation plan for this mechanism to Congress within 90 days after October 11, 2010.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–267, title VII, § 703, Oct. 11, 2010, 124 Stat. 2830.)