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6 Conclusions
Pages 49-50

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... From the perspective of the academic PIs, who are typically inexperienced in project management, the programmatic constraints allow little time and few resources to accommodate management missteps while preserving the proposed scientific scope of the mission. Moreover, the attention to management issues required for PI-led mission accomplishment is inconsistent with typical academic career advancement criteria (except, perhaps, for those interested in high-level university administration)
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... The committee also believes that cost, schedule, and NASA oversight constraints on PI-led missions do not leave much room for innovative management approaches or significant creation or enhancement of space systems development infrastructures, even with the most experienced project teams. The committee thus concludes that it is unrealistic to expect the competitive AO process for PI-led missions to substantially enhance mission management capability at universities that do not already have space mission infrastructure in place.
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