; (3) an overview of measures that may be necessary to ensure the continued operational viability and to increase the resiliency of the identified vulnerable facilities and infrastructure and the cost of such measures; and (4) considerations and recommendations for policies and practices for future Administration facilities and infrastructure design, construction, and operation that would promote resilience to changing environmental conditions and extreme weather events. (c) Consideration and incorporation of reliable and authorized sources In conducting the assessment, the Administrator shall consider and incorporate climate change impacts, projections and analyses from reliable and authorized sources, such as the National Academies of Sciences, the United States Geological Survey, the U.S. Global Change Research Office and National Climate Assessment, and the Administration’s Earth Science Division. X General Provisions 1001. Space situational awareness and orbital debris mitigation (a) In general The Administrator is authorized to carry out activities, including research and development, orbital debris measurement, tracking, modeling, mitigation, remediation, conjunction analysis, and collision avoidance, for the purposes of maintaining the safety of the Administration’s human spaceflight crew and spacecraft operations and for advancing the understanding of practical approaches to ensuring the sustainability of the space environment for the future of civil and commercial activities in space. (b) Research and technology strategy The Administrator, in collaboration with other relevant Federal agencies, academia, and industry, shall develop a research and technology strategy for advancing the Nation’s capability for conducting space situational awareness and orbital debris mitigation activities. The strategy shall identify and prioritize— (1) basic and applied research to improve object identification, orbit determination, object characterization, data cataloguing, and orbit propagation tracking and prediction