DEFINITIONS OF COMMERCIAL SPACE POLICY TERMS.

SEC. 309. DEFINITIONS OF COMMERCIAL SPACE POLICY TERMS. It is the sense of the Congress that the Administrator should ensure, to the extent practicable, that the usage of terminology in National Aeronautics and Space Administration policies and programs with respect to space activities is consistent with the following definitions: (1) The term “commercialization” means actions or policies which promote or facilitate the private creation or expansion of commercial markets for privately developed and privately provided space goods and services, including privatized space activities. (2) The term “commercial purchase” means a purchase by the Federal Government of space goods and services at a market price from a private entity which has invested private resources to meet commercial requirements. (3) The term “commercial use of Federal assets” means the use of Federal assets by a private entity to deliver services to commercial customers, with or without putting private capital at risk. (4) The term “contract consolidation” means the combining of two or more Government service contracts for related space activities into one larger Government service contract. (5) The term “privatization” means the process of transferring— (A) control and ownership of Federal space-related assets, along with the responsibility for operating, maintaining, and upgrading those assets, to the private sector; or (B) control and responsibility for space-related functions from the Federal Government to the private sector.