[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 128 (Wednesday, July 6, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 40282]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-14316]



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OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY


Request for Information; Cislunar Science and Technology 
Subcommittee

AGENCY: Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).

ACTION: Notice of request for information.

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SUMMARY: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy 
(OSTP)--on behalf of the Cislunar Science and Technology Subcommittee 
of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)--requests input 
to help inform development of a national science and technology 
strategy on U.S. activities in cislunar space. For the purposes of this 
RFI, cislunar space is defined as the entire region beyond Earth's 
geostationary orbit still subject to the Earth's and/or Moon's gravity, 
including orbits around the Moon and the lunar surface. The strategy 
will include key U.S. government research and development (R&D) 
priorities and proposed technical standards to enable a robust, 
cooperative, and sustainable ecosystem in cislunar space.

DATES: Responses must be received by July 20, 2022 to be considered.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
     Email: [email protected], include Cislunar RFI in the 
subject line of the message.
     Mail: Attn: NSTC Cislunar Science & Technology 
Subcommittee, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Eisenhower 
Executive Office Building, 1650 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 
20504.
    Instructions: Response to this RFI is voluntary. Respondents need 
not reply to all questions listed. Each individual or institution is 
requested to submit only one response. Electronic responses must be 
provided as attachments to an email. It is recommended that attachments 
with file sizes exceeding 25MB be compressed (i.e. zipped) to ensure 
message delivery. Please identify your answers by responding to a 
specific question or topic if possible. Respondents may answer as many 
or as few questions as they wish. Comments of seven pages or fewer 
(3,500 words) are requested; longer responses will not be considered.
    Any information obtained from this RFI is intended to be used by 
the Government on a non-attribution basis for planning and strategy 
development. OSTP will not respond to individual submissions. A 
response to this RFI will not be viewed as a binding commitment to 
develop or pursue the project or ideas discussed. This RFI is not 
accepting applications for financial assistance or financial 
incentives. Responses to this RFI may be posted without change online. 
OSTP therefore requests that no proprietary information, copyrighted 
information, or personally identifiable information be submitted in 
response to this RFI. Please note that the United States Government 
will not pay for response preparation, or for the use of any 
information contained in a response.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: [email protected] or Matt Daniels 
at 202-456-4444.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 6617, OSTP is 
soliciting public input through an RFI to obtain feedback from a wide 
variety of stakeholders, including individuals, industry, academia, 
research laboratories, nonprofits, and think tanks. OSTP is 
specifically interested in public input to inform a national science 
and technology strategy for U.S. activities in cislunar space, 
referring to the entire region beyond Earth's geostationary orbit still 
subject to the Earth's and/or Moon's gravity, including orbits around 
the Moon and the lunar surface. OSTP seeks response to either or both 
of the following questions:
    1. What research and development should the U.S. government 
prioritize to help advance a robust, cooperative, and sustainable 
ecosystem in cislunar space in the next 10 years? And over the next 50 
years?
    2. What key technical standards are most useful to develop in 
support of activities in cislunar space, and how could these standards 
enable and support a vibrant and sustainable cislunar ecosystem?

    Dated: June 29, 2022.
Stacy Murphy,
Operations Manager.
[FR Doc. 2022-14316 Filed 7-5-22; 8:45 am]
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