Lessons Learned in the Implementation of NASA's Earth Venture Class (2022) / Chapter Skim
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5 Lessons Learned and Recommendations
5 Lessons Learned and Recommendations
Pages 42-48
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The EV program has indeed offered increased opportunity for new ideas to be tested. Calls for proposals have until recently come out on a regular cadence, which provides potential principal investigators (PIs)
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Selected missions have tended to be "Category I" missions, meaning excellent or very good science and implementation strategies with low risk as assessed by the review of technical, management, and cost feasibility. FINDING 2.2: By using the same selection process as previous missions in the Earth System Science Pathfinder Program, which has minimal feedback between science and technical risk portions of the assessment, the EV selection process appears to favor lower risk missions independent of potential advances that were not explicitly part of the baseline science mission.
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RECOMMENDATION 4.2: NASA should keep the Earth Venture selection process as a one-step process. FINDING 4.1: Classifying all EV missions as Class "D" and tailoring the project management regime to be consistent with the results from the proposal's technical, management, and cost review can identify more specific risks to be addressed during a risk-based safety and mission assurance process.
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The science return of future EV missions, the benefits of a regular and predictable cadence for EV selection, as well as the ability of potential principal investi gators to keep their teams together if attempting a second (or further) proposal, are threatened when previously selected missions are allowed to grow substantially beyond their planned cost cap.
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ADDITIONAL LESSONS LEARNED FOR FUTURE EV-I AND EV-M In addition to the finding and recommendations detailed above, the following findings apply to the interaction between the EV program and various other agencies and programs. Earth Venture Proposal, Selection, and Implementation Process (Chapter 2)
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LESSONS LEARNED AND RECOMMENDATIONS 47 Evaluation of Enhanced Science and Applications (Chapter 4) FINDING 4.4: Although science-driven missions may focus on both foundational science questions as well as more applied questions, it appears impossible to evaluate applications quantitatively when all proposals are not required to answer both sets of questions.
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