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1 Introduction
Pages 7-10

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... 1.2 CHARGE TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE NSF asked the SSB of the National Academies to provide an independent assessment of the ICCGS report. The statement of task for the Committee on the Assessment of the National Science Foundation's 2015 Geospace Portfolio Review (hereafter, "the assessment committee" or "the committee")
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... . improve scientific understanding of the mechanisms that drive the Sun's activity and the fundamental physical processes underlying near-Earth plasma dynamics; determine the physical interactions of Earth's atmospheric layers in the context of the connected Sun-Earth system; and greatly enhance the capability to provide realistic and specific forecasts of Earth's space environment that will better serve the needs of society.4 3  National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)
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... As part of the DRIVE initiative, a specific decadal survey recommendation to NSF is to implement a competitively selected midscale project funding line. The survey enumerates several examples of candidate projects that were prioritized by survey panels.7 The decadal survey makes a strong case that progress in solar and space physics depends on understanding the system as a whole -- that is, the science discipline requires more than independent investigations of a collection of simply interacting physical domains.
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... Chapter 5 discusses the GS program recommended by ICCGS, and Chapter 6 addresses the clarity and completeness of the ICCGS recommendations as well as the planning and resources needed for their implementation. 9  NSTC, 2015, National Space Weather Action Plan.
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