# Office of Space Commerce

**Agency:** Commerce  
**Account:** Office of Space Commerce  
**Source document:** Departmental Management · p. 131  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/commerce/office-of-space-commerce  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2027 | request | 11.0 |

## Commerce discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $7.00B, FY2026 $11.90B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

For necessary expenses for carrying out the space commerce activities of the Department of Commerce as authorized by law, $11,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2028: Provided, That amounts made available by prior appropriations Acts under the heading "National account: Provided further, That such transfer authority is in addition to any other transfer authority provided in this Act. 31 U.S.C. 720, as amended January 3, 2019, requires the head of a federal agency to submit a written statement of the actions taken or planned on Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommendations to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations with the agency's first request for appropriations made more than 180 calendar days after the date report that identifies each public recommendation issued by GAO and the agency's office of the inspector general (OIG) which has remained unimplemented for one year or more from the annual budget justification submission date. In addition, the Act requires a reconciliation between the agency records and the IGs' Semiannual Report to Congress (SAR). Section 1. Recommendations for which action plans were finalized since the last appropriations request. Section 2. Implementation of GAO public recommendations issued no less than one year ago that are designated by GAO as `Open' or `Closed-Unimplemented.' Open Recommendation(s) the Department has decided not to implement. Open Recommendation(s) the Department plans to implement. Section 3. Implementation of OIG public recommendations issued no less than one year for which Final Action has not been Taken or Action Not Recommended has Section 4. Discrepancies between this report and the semiannual reports submitted by the Commerce Office of Inspector General or reports submitted by the GAO Nothing to Report: There are no discrepancies other than recommendations issued or closed since GAO or OIG reports. Section 1: GAO Recommendations for which action plans were finalized since the last appropriations request. This table includes recommendations for which action plans were finalized since Budget Exhibit 41 was prepared for the last appropriations request. GAO-24- Artificial Intelligence: 10 The Secretary of Commerce should The Department will review its DOC AI Use Case Preparing Open 105980 Agencies Have Begun ensure that the department develops a Inventory for compliance with all nine Principles for Complete) Closure Request plan to either achieve consistency with Use of AI in Government prescribed in EO 13960 Implementation but Need to EO 13960 section 5 for each AI section3, will identify all applications found to be Complete Complete Key Requirements application or retires AI applications found inconsistent with the principles and will submit to the to be developed or used in a manner that Chief AI Officer a corresponding plan to achieve is not consistent with the order. consistency with EO 13960 or to retire the application. GAO-24- Artificial Intelligence: 12/12/2023 11 The Secretary of Commerce should The Department will review and update the current Complete Preparing Open 105980 Agencies Have Begun ensure that the department updates its AI inventory to include all required information as Closure Request Implementation but Need to use case inventory to include all the provided in the EO 13960, and the Department will Complete Key Requirements required information, at minimum, and perform updates, at least annually, to the AI use case takes steps to ensure that the data in the inventory to ensure compliance with EO 13960. GAO-24- Federal Agencies Made 12/4/2023 2 Cybersecurity: The Department has The Secretary of Commerce should ensure that the In Progress Remediation Open 105658 Progress, but Need to Fully identified an enterprise solution for event agency fully implements all event logging efforts are still Requirements logging and continues to mature the requirements as directed by OMB guidance. ongoing. Original GAO-24- Cloud Computing: Agencies 9/20/2024 5 The Secretary of Commerce should To address GAO's recommendations, the Complete N/A Closed 106137 Need to Address Key OMB ensure that the CIO of Commerce Department's Office of Federal Information finalizes guidance to put a cloud Service Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) Level Agreement (SLA) in place with assembled an immediate task force that included every vendor when a cloud solution is Departmental subject matter experts to develop deployed. The guidance should include Departmental Guidance on Cloud Smart Procurement


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*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*