.The Workplace of the General Counsel provides functional management concerning legal services and problems connected to all components of NASA activities for Center Principal and License Attorney and, for Agency-wide problems, the Administrator. These companies and concerns feature establishing and also distributing legal plan and also analyzing brand new laws and situations. The Office of the General Counselor is actually likewise behind establishing the ethics as well as license program demands, creating metrics, and also developing high quality requirements.As a practical workplace Affiliate Supervisor, the General Legal adviser serves in an advising capacity to the Administrator, and teams up with Venture Affiliate Administrators and also Facility Directors to make sure that Firm tasks are actually carried out in accordance with all legal as well as regulative requirements.The Workplace of the General Attorney likewise works as Washington, DC, lawsuits counselor, delivers judicial proceeding expertise to the Firm, and acts as the Company representative prior to the U.S. License as well as Trademark Workplace. The Workplace additionally offers expert advice, error as well as overflow help to Centers, and also offers lawful services to all the offices at Headquarters.The Office of the General Legal Adviser at Central office is actually coordinated into a front workplace, one lawful system and four legal process teams:.Acquisition Honesty System-- The Purchase Integrity System (AIP) possesses primary responsibility for legal issues regarding procurement fraudulence and also various other similar abnormalities, solutions balance, and also suspension and debarment. The System is accountable for preventing, discovering, and also deterring procurement fraud via education and learning and training of the NASA staff in addition to for sustaining the investigation and prosecutor of fraud and corruption related to the procurement process..Commercial & Patent-- This Practice Group possesses key responsibility for patent issues in residential and worldwide deals, specialized data problems, license as well as copyright licensing, and also the distribution of pc program, in addition to non-procurement (Room Act) agreements with commercial and also worldwide bodies..Contracts & Purchase-- This Method Group possesses major accountability for contracts, grants, and participating arrangements..General Legislation-- This Practice Team has major task for areas such as principles, personnel, economic, ecological, and also safety and also security legislation, and also laws and also other regions certainly not especially assigned to among the other divisions..International as well as Space Law-- This Technique Group possesses major duty over legal problems concerning export control, Flexibility of Information Action allures, and also basic matters of worldwide regulation.General Legal Adviser: Iris Lan.Deputy General Counsel: Christine Pham (Acting).Administrative Staff: Carolyn L. Johnson, Legal Assistant Professional Lead Jeanette Covington, Managerial SpecialistTel: 202-358-2450.OGC Legal Workflow Group: Bryan Diederich, (Performing) Director of Legal OperationsTanya Jefferson, Monitoring as well as Course AnalystJustyna Ragiel-Smith, Monitoring and Course Expert.OGC Leadership Directory Get In Touch With Info for the Headquarters Leadership and Center Principal Counsels.OGC Waiver: The content within this site carry out not comprise legal tips. For information read our disclaimer.