Space News: Sponsors To Push Export Control Legislation as Part of Defense Authorization Bill

According to a recent article in Space News, export control reform legislation may be take up by the House of Representatives as soon as next week.  The measure would focus on a small component of the larger export control reform efforts: satellite components. 

In the article, an unnamed Congressional staffer says: “The defense authorization act, one of those must-pass bills, is going to be on the House floor next Wednesday,” the staffer said May 10 here at a meeting of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (Comstac). “One of the things Mr. Berman and others would like to do is to attach the content of this bill as an amendment to that bill.”

You can read the entire Space News article, here.