.The Office of the General Counsel provides functional management concerning legal services and issues connected to all parts of NASA tasks for Facility Principal and License Legal Adviser and, for Agency-wide concerns, the Administrator. These services and also problems feature setting up and also circulating legal plan as well as interpreting new laws as well as scenarios. The Workplace of the General Counselor is actually additionally responsible for developing the principles and also patent plan demands, setting up metrics, as well as developing top quality specifications.As an operational office Partner Manager, the General Counselor serves in an advisory capacity to the Administrator, and also teams up with Business Associate Administrators as well as Center Supervisors to make certain that Company activities are actually performed based on all lawful and also regulative criteria.The Workplace of the General Legal adviser additionally acts as Washington, DC, litigation legal adviser, delivers lawsuits skills to the Firm, and functions as the Organization agent prior to the U.S. Patent and also Trademark Workplace. The Office additionally offers skilled insight, lapse and also spillover help to Centers, as well as offers legal solutions to all the workplaces at Base.The Office of the General Counselor at Head office is actually coordinated into a main office, one lawful program and also four legal process groups:.Purchase Stability Course-- The Purchase Integrity Program (AIP) has primary responsibility for lawful concerns pertaining to procurement scams and various other relevant abnormalities, solutions sychronisation, and also suspension and also debarment. The Plan is responsible for stopping, sensing, and discouraging procurement fraud with education and learning and instruction of the NASA labor force as well as for assisting the examination and also prosecution of scams and also nepotism pertaining to the purchase method..Commercial & Patent-- This Strategy Team has main accountability for intellectual property problems in residential and also international agreements, technical information issues, license as well as copyright licensing, and also the distribution of computer software, as well as non-procurement (Area Action) deals along with business and worldwide companies..Contracts & Purchase-- This Practice Group has key responsibility for deals, grants, and also cooperative contracts..General Legislation-- This Method Team has primary accountability for regions including ethics, employees, fiscal, environmental, and safety and security and also surveillance law, in addition to legislation as well as various other regions certainly not particularly appointed to some of the other divisions..International and Area Law-- This Practice Team possesses main accountability over lawful problems concerning export control, Freedom of Details Act appeals, and overall issues of worldwide legislation.General Counselor: Iris Lan.Representant General Legal Adviser: Christine Pham (Acting).Management Personnel: Carolyn L. Johnson, Legal Assistant Professional Lead Jeanette Covington, Management SpecialistTel: 202-358-2450.OGC Legal Operations Staff: Bryan Diederich, (Acting) Director of Legal OperationsTanya Jefferson, Administration and also Program AnalystJustyna Ragiel-Smith, Monitoring and also System Professional.OGC Management Listing Call Information for the Base Leadership and Facility Principal Counsels.OGC Waiver: The materials within this web site do not constitute legal guidance. For particulars review our disclaimer.