Space
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The world's foremost aviation and space experts, including CEOs and policymakers, will gather at the 2024 Global Aerospace Summit on Sept. 10-11 in Washington, D.C. The event is an opportunity to learn, network, and explore, with engaging discussions, exhibits, and state-of-the-art aircraft prototypes.
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Key themes included public-private partnerships, commercial economy and habitation in space, and national security.
Highlights: Global Aerospace Summit 2023
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Every day, more businesses are considering the commercial potential of space. The U.S. Chamber is working closely with government and industry leaders to turn potential into a reality. We are advancing public-private collaboration needed to support space exploration and commercial and private aerospace travel as well as to create guidelines for managing traffic and commerce. We are also helping government leaders shape smart regulations to drive innovation and growth in this emerging sector so people, businesses, industries, and economies everywhere can benefit from the limitless possibilities of space.
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Colleagues: Provided below are additional actions completed from yesterday’s call with OSD: Link to yesterday’s Small Business webinar with the Small Business Administration and their slides: https://business.defense.gov/Portals/57/Documents/SBA%20Webinar.pdf?ver=2020-04-09-115529-690 Links to the Services Small Business portals industry can reach out to:
Colleagues, Provided below are notes from April 9th OSD A&S COVID conference call with Associations and the Chamber:
Colleagues: Official JATF Landing Page available here and the COVID-19 JATF Industry Portal (powered by AFWerx) available here. If you would like a copy of DIB’s Small Business Best Practices or the Class Deviation- CARES Act Section 3610 Implementation, please email Katie Levantovscaia at KLevantovscaia@USCHamber.com
April 8th OSD A&S COVID Conference Call Notes
Colleagues: To access International Principles for Safeguarding Essential Economic Functions in the COVID-19 Pandemic, please follow this link. To access International Principles on Export Restrictions in the COVID-19 Pandemic, please follow this link.
Colleagues: This Hill letter was sent to Congressional leadership on the caps on the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
April 6 OSD A&S COVID conference call notes:
Good morning colleagues, Provided FYSA is a DPC class deviation for Undefinitized Contract Actions and the DPC progress payment implementation. Additional links provided below for reference. JATF Portal AFWERX Portal
Colleagues: Provided below is a one-pager on the Joint Acquisition Task Force and the latest links from OSD . DCMA’s recent commercial item determination JATF portal (an overview of the JATF).
Colleagues: Thank you to those who participated on today’s call. For those who did not or wanted a recap, below are minutes from the discussion. April 3rd OSD A&S COVID conference call notes: