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About the Office of the General Counsel

.The Workplace of the General Attorney delivers functional leadership pertaining to legal solutions as well as problems associated with all components of NASA activities for Center Principal as well as License Legal Adviser as well as, for Agency-wide problems, the Supervisor. These solutions and also issues consist of setting up as well as sharing lawful plan as well as deciphering brand-new statutes and also instances. The Workplace of the General Counsel is additionally behind cultivating the values as well as license plan demands, creating metrics, as well as creating premium requirements.As a practical workplace Colleague Administrator, the General Counsel offers in a consultatory capacity to the Supervisor, and deals with Venture Affiliate Administrators as well as Center Directors to ensure that Firm activities are conducted according to all legal and also governing requirements.The Office of the General Counsel also functions as Washington, DC, judicial proceeding counsel, supplies judicial proceeding expertise to the Firm, and also serves as the Agency rep before the united state License as well as Trademark Workplace. The Workplace additionally supplies expert insight, mistake and also overflow help to Centers, and also delivers lawful services to all the workplaces at Head office.The Workplace of the General Counselor at Main office is organized in to a main office, one legal plan as well as four legal process groups:.Purchase Honesty System-- The Purchase Stability Program (AIP) has key duty for legal concerns pertaining to procurement scams and various other similar irregularities, remedies control, and suspension and debarment. The Program is in charge of stopping, recognizing, as well as deterring procurement fraudulence by means of learning as well as training of the NASA labor force and also for assisting the investigation and prosecution of fraudulence and corruption pertaining to the purchase process..Commercial &amp Trademark-- This Technique Team has major responsibility for trademark issues in domestic as well as international arrangements, technological information issues, license and also copyright licensing, and the distribution of computer program, as well as non-procurement (Room Action) contracts with industrial and also worldwide bodies..Contracts &amp Procurement-- This Practice Group possesses major obligation for deals, gives, as well as collaborative agreements..General Regulation-- This Method Group possesses primary duty for locations including ethics, workers, budgetary, environmental, and also security as well as protection regulation, as well as regulations as well as various other places not exclusively assigned to some of the various other divisions..International and also Space Law-- This Method Team possesses primary responsibility over legal issues pertaining to export management, Freedom of Information Act charms, and standard matters of international law.General Attorney: Eye Lan.Replacement General Counsel: Christine Pham (Acting).Administrative Workers: Carolyn L. Johnson, Legal Assistant Specialist Lead Jeanette Covington, Management SpecialistTel: 202-358-2450.OGC Legal Functions Staff: Bryan Diederich, (Acting) Supervisor of Lawful OperationsTanya Jefferson, Management and Program AnalystJustyna Ragiel-Smith, Control and also Plan Analyst.OGC Leadership Listing Get In Touch With Information for the Headquarters Leadership as well as Center Chief Counsels.OGC Please note: The materials within this web site do not make up legal suggestions. For details read our waiver.