Universal Science and Technology Administration (国際科学技術局, Kokusaikagaku Gijutsu-kyoku?), abbreviated as USTA, is an organization established by consensus vote in the Greater United Nations around A.D 2065.
Its purpose is to research peaceful uses for outer space and to help preserve the human race. The USTA is composed of several project teams, each preforming research and development on a variety of technologies. To prevent new wars or an arms race between nations, the organization avoids any involvement in military affairs.
Things began to look up in AD 2087, when Professor Trillas Bachtein's Subspace Warp engine succeeded, inching humanity's dream closer to a reality. Shortly afterward, the USTA began to secretly implement the Space Reconnaissance Force project, and in S.D. 10, the first official SRF mission began.