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... . As a result, the core products of public-purpose information systems and the processes by which they were derived have to be open to scientific scrutiny and therefore be in the public domain.
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... 38 The Privatization of Environmental Data Nevertheless, some private-sector entities and Congress are urging government agencies to increase the involvement of the private sector in collecting and disseminating data, and creating data products (see Chapter 2, "Private-Sector Views"~. Many government-developed satellite technologies are sufficiently mature that private-sector companies can profitably enter the remote-sensing industry by launching their own satellites or by developing new applications for commercial and public-sector customers.
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... Many of these conflicts derive from the well-known transition in the development of a new technology from an exploratory stage of basic research and demonstration to a mature stage 2Recent legislation noting the undesirability of government competition with the private sector includes National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2000, Public Law 10-391; National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal year 2000, Public law 106-65; National Weather Service and Related Agencies Authorization Act of 1999, Report 106-146 to accompany H.R. 1553, 106th Congress, 1st session; and Department of Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001, Conference Report on H.R.
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