Break up the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and reassign its assets

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Printed page 677 21. Department of Commerce

“The Office of Marine and Aviation Operations, which provides the ships and planes used by NOAA agencies, should be broken up and its assets reassigned to the General Services Administration or to other agencies.”

What has happened

Aug 31, 2026 Not started
Nothing found, and the Budget moves the other way: the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations is not broken up in either budget cycle, and the FY2027 request grows it from $510.5 million to $602.4 million, adding $128 million of procurement for NOAA shipbuilding and unmanned systems in support of EO 14276 and EO 14269. No assets are reassigned to the General Services Administration or to any other agency.
- NOAA FY2027 Congressional Justification
  Primary Executive branch Apr 1, 2026
- Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2027 — Department of Commerce
  Primary Executive branch Apr 1, 2026

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

§3b’s “moved the other way” rule. Negative search: grep -n -i "Marine and Aviation Operations" over the text-extracted FY2027 Congressional Justification (fourteen hits, all budget-table and program rows; the OMAO total line was read at line 1792), the same grep over the FY2026 Justification, and grep -i "General Services Administration" over both; a jq pass over the NOAA slice of the Corpus for OMAO|Marine and Aviation (0 Federal Register records); and presidential-actions.ndjson for NOAA (0).

The FY2027 Budget’s Commerce chapter is attached for its ”+$135 million … Supports American Maritime Dominance” line, which is the clearest statement that OMAO’s fleet is being invested in rather than dispersed.

Action: abolish
Object: Office of Marine and Aviation Operations
ID: 1880