<div dir="ltr">Greetings! It's such good news to hear about your operations center. We concur with your approach and we are here to help make learning and participation in space easier. <br><br>Here is the GitHub folder with all our regulatory results. <br><br><a href="https://github.com/phase4ground/documents/tree/master/Regulatory">https://github.com/phase4ground/documents/tree/master/Regulatory</a><br><br>We will be adding more soon. We completed the CJ request, we published the application (not generally done), and included the final determination letter in the folder. We did an EAR classification request, which was successful, and the results are in the folder as well. Currently, we are waiting for our advisory opinion letter to come back from Commerce.<br><br>At that point, all the documents will be in this folder. <br><br>The way that these sorts of requests work is to ask for regulatory relief for a specific product or program. ORI results can be cited as part of your open source space policy, and furthermore can be used as a reference in filing your own CJ and EAR classification. Please let me know if you use them, need example policies, or want to collaborate in filing more requests. Building a body of work is a powerful approach to any regulatory problem. We have spearheaded formal use of the open-source carve outs that already exist in ITAR/EAR, but just as in the commercial sector, building a "portfolio" of successful open source results reduces volunteer and participant risk with every new filing.<br><br>My phone number is 858 229 3399, text ok. <br><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">-Michelle W5NYV</div><div dir="ltr">CEO ORI<br><br><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 8:27 AM Betts, Byron E. <<a href="mailto:bbetts@caltech.edu">bbetts@caltech.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Caltech is in the planning stages of creating a spacecraft Mission/Science operations center on campus. Would it be possible to obtain a copy of the CJ-0003120-Submittal Letter drafted by Thomsen and Burke LLP? The current ITAR/EAR regulations
will possibly result in restrictions on our MOC/SOC limiting access to US persons only, or impose licensing requirements that would essentially have the same result. If an “Open-Source” approach to these activities would allow us to limit these restrictions
it would result in a much more open and inclusive learning environment.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards and 73<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Byron<u></u><u></u></p>
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