SpaceCom 2017

James Muncy
President
PoliSpace


James A. M. Muncy is the founder and president of PoliSpace, an independent space policy consultancy that helps space entrepreneurs and senior executives succeed at the intersection of business, public policy, and technology. PoliSpace provides its clients business strategy, policy research and advocacy, legislative relations, and communications services, including several leading companies and the largest trade association in the U.S. commercial spaceflight industry. Working in space policy for 35 years, for the past two decades Muncy has been a leading advocate of privatizing human spaceflight capabilities in Low Earth Orbit, particularly International Space Station cargo and crew transport services. An expert in the policy and law behind federal regulation of space transportation, he led industry’s participation in crafting and its advocacy for Title I of the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015. Previously, in 2011-2 Muncy managed the successful legislative campaign to extend the regulatory “learning period” that prevents uninformed overregulation of the emerging commercial human spaceflight industry. In 2003-4 he led industry’s proposal, negotiation, and support for enacting the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004 (P.L. 108-492), which created the legal framework in the United States underpinning commercial human space flight. In 2009, Muncy staffed his client XCOR Aerospace CEO Jeffrey Greason in his service on the White House Committee on Human Spaceflight Plans (aka “the Augustine Commission”). More recently, Muncy helped to architect an approach that allows the Department of Transportation to authorize by launch license commercial missions beyond Earth orbit, including the proposed first commercial robotic lander. Muncy worked for the first two American “Spaceflight Participants” who purchased trips to the International Space Station (Dennis Tito and Greg Olsen). In 2005 Muncy secured an amendment to the Iran Nonproliferation Act so NASA could buy commercial space goods and services which included Russian technical content. He has also provided policy research and communications support to several Air Force military space projects, including the X-37 Space Maneuvering Vehicle program. Muncy’s most recent government service was from 1995 into 2000 in the U.S. House of Representatives. For three years he served on the Professional Staff of the House Science Committee’s Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee as Chairman Dana Rohrabacher’s staff designee. Muncy held the lead responsibility for issues and programs such as reusable launch vehicles, NASA space flight commercialization, military space technology, export control reform, range modernization, and future NASA programs. Prior to this, Muncy spent over two years on Rep. Rohrabacher’s personal staff as his Legislative Assistant for Space. Before this, Muncy spent nine years as a space policy and marketing consultant for various clients including NASA, NOAA, several private firms, and the not-for-profit space community, while also securing a graduate degree in Space Studies. In the mid-1980’s Muncy worked for two and a half years as a policy assistant to President Ronald Reagan’s first Science Advisor, Dr. George Keyworth, in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and served as the White House’s Staff Liaison to the National Commission on Space (aka “the Paine Commission”). While working at OSTP he had the opportunity to contribute substantially to several Presidential addresses on civil and military space policy. Muncy began his career in space policy in 1981 as a staff advisor in the Office of Congressman Newt Gingrich, where he helped Mr. Gingrich co-found the Congressional Space Caucus, drafted space policy legislation and carried out outreach initiatives.

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