Capabilities for the Future An Assessment of NASA Laboratories for Basic Research (2010) / Chapter Skim
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3 Support for Fundamental Research at NASA
3 Support for Fundamental Research at NASA
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Several conclusions can be drawn from these data. While the total funding for R&D encompasses roughly half of the total NASA annual budget, the funding for basic research decreased by 23 percent, or $542 million; the funding for applied research decreased by 47 percent, or $913 million; and the funding for development activities increased by 78.7 percent, or $2.75 billion, from FY 2005 through FY 2009.
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Center directors received a CM&O budget to operate their centers to include all administrative support services plus any fundamental research not supported by mission projects. Fundamental research laboratories came into competition for limited dollars with fire protection, public affairs, nonprogram 11
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general and administrative overhead costs as part of their cost proposals. From the perspective of a research leader at a NASA center, the cost of operating a fundamental research laboratory changed drastically following the transition to "full cost." The total funding needed was now double or triple that before the transition, but the funding available from CM&O budgets and the number of awards and amounts available from competitive Headquarters opportunities did not increase correspondingly.
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Another pathway is the CAS funds that are sent to each NASA center. As mentioned previously, CAS funding includes the CM&O and CoF institutional investment funds, which are distributed at the discretion of the center director.
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SOURCE: Roy V Harris, Jr., Former Director of Aeronautics, NASA Langley Research Center, "NASA Aeronautics Research 1958-2008; A Brief Program and Funding History with Comments on the Future," presentation to the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, December 1, 2008, Washington, D.C.
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, institutional investment funds, or third parties. The NASA Headquarters Facilities Engineering and Real Property Division leads the review and sets the priority of institutional facility projects.3 Table 3.4 shows the direct CM&O funding of each NASA center from FY 2007 through the proposed budget for FY 2010.
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The FY 2009 annual NASA-wide budget for institutional facility repairs is approximately $234 million,5 but it was estimated by the director of the NASA Facilities Engineering and Real Property Division that almost double this budget would be required to deal with all of the high and very high facility repair requirements. At the present rate of critical repairs, there are identified serious facility problems with potentially major adverse impact on missions waiting to happen.
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NOTE: Acronyms are defined in Appendix F SOURCE: Frank Bellinger, Director of Facilities Engineering and Real Property Division, NASA Headquarters.
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This facility condition assessment is complementary to the information contained in the FY 2006 NASA-Wide Standardized Deferred Maintenance Assessment Report; however, because the recommendations were the product of a more thorough engineering assessment at the critical component, system, and facility levels than had been performed for the DM report, the cost of returning these facilities to a safe and reliable condition is much greater than the DM assessment would have determined. In addition to NASA's not fully assessing the maintenance required, the committee was informed of examples where recent investment in a facility or laboratory was larger than the reported CRV in the DM assessment, adding uncertainty about the level of maintenance funding required because the CRVs of the facilities are in many cases understated.
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Center LaRC 2,136,803,288 146,129,932 3.68 ARC 1,347,982,515 176,031,866 3.90 GRC 1,123,430,679 93,765,877 3.81 MSFC 720,249,938 59,090,974 3.96 GSFC 530,513,552 32,350,977 3.70 JPL 513,810,284 18,778,436 4.03 Totals 6,372,790,256 526,148,062 NOTE: Acronyms are defined in Appendix F SOURCE: Frank Bellinger, Director of Facilities Engineering and Real Property Division, NASA Headquarters, "NASA Buildings That Support TRL 1-3 Research," e-mail to the committee, December 4, 2009.
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