Sec. 712. Space Act Agreements
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To the extent that the Administrator determines practicable, the funds provided by the Government under a funded Space Act Agreement shall not exceed the total amount provided by other parties to the Space Act Agreement. A funded Space Act Agreement may be used only when the use of a standard contract, grant, or cooperative agreement is not feasible or appropriate, as determined by the Associate Administrator for Procurement. The Administrator shall make available for public notice and comment each proposed Space Act Agreement at least 30 days before entering into such agreement, with appropriate redactions for proprietary, sensitive, or classified information.
The Administrator shall publicly disclose on the Administration’s website and make available in a searchable format each Space Act Agreement, with appropriate redactions for proprietary, sensitive, or classified information, not later than 60 days after such agreement is signed. Not later than 90 days after the end of each fiscal year, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the use of Space Act Agreement authority by the Administration during the previous fiscal year.
The report shall include for each Space Act Agreement in effect at the time of the report— an indication of whether the agreement is a reimbursable, nonreimbursable, or funded Space Act Agreement; a description of— the subject and terms; the parties; the responsible— mission directorate; center; or headquarters element; the value; the extent of the cost sharing among Federal Government and non-Federal sources; the time period or schedule; and all milestones; and an indication of whether the agreement was renewed during the previous fiscal year.
The report shall also include a list of all anticipated reimbursable, nonreimbursable, and funded Space Act Agreements for the upcoming fiscal year. The report shall also include, with respect to the Space Act Agreements covered by the report, a summary of— the technology areas in which research projects were conducted under such agreements; the extent to which the use of the Space Act Agreements— has contributed to a broadening of the technology and industrial base available for meeting Administration needs; and has fostered within the technology and industrial base new relationships and practices that support the United States; and the total amount of value received by the Federal Government during the fiscal year pursuant to such Space Act Agreements.