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have been characterized in the NPR 8705.4 Risk Classification for NASA Payloads by considering factors such as criticality to the Agency Strategic Plan, national significance, complexity, mission lifetime, cost, and other relevant factors. Class C is medium priority, medium national significance, and medium-to-low complexity and cost while Class D is considered low in all these aspects.
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Adherence to cost caps and schedule constraints was deemed critical to the success of EV in order to ensure availability of funding for regular, relatively frequent solicitations, which are necessary to ensure programmatic flexibility and the capability to respond rapidly to new scientific opportunities or priorities. Previous National Academies studies that reviewed progress in implementation of the EV program were generally favorable; indeed, recommending consideration of increased cadence for the EV-M standalone space missions, as well as recommending the initiation of EV-C to provide opportunity for low-cost sustained observations.6,7 However, implementation of the EV-I and EV-M strands has also experienced setbacks, with several EV-I missions experiencing multiyear delays because anticipated hosting opportunities on commercial launch vehicles did not materialize and because EVM-2, Geostationary Carbon Observatory (GeoCarb)
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THE EARTH VENTURE SOLICITATION, EVALUATION, SELECTION, AND IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS EV-I and EV-M follow the customary NASA announcement of opportunity (AO) single-step proposal selection process, as follows: NASA releases an AO based on the standard NASA AO template with very similar requirements, sections, page limits, and reference documents to NASA AOs for PI-led missions in the other SMD divisions.
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science requirements are the minimum performance requirements necessary to achieve the minimum science acceptable for the mission. Baseline science requirements are the investigation performance requirements necessary to achieve the entire set of science objectives identified at the initiation of the mission (see NASA, 2011, "Earth System Science Pathfinder Program Office: Program Plan," NASA Langley Research Center, Document No.
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was much higher. RECOMMENDATION 4.3: NASA project management should implement risk-based safety and mis sion assurance principles and procedures by using NASA Procedural Document (NPR)
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Multiyear schedule slips and projects growing substantially beyond their cost cap are inconsistent with the rationale for the EV program. Expanding and Diversifying the Principal Investigator and Project Manager Pool The mission development experiences needed to put together full EV proposals currently limit the pool of PIs and program management entities capable of assembling competitive proposals; indirectly, it also limits the diversity of selectees.
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RECOMMENDATION 3.1: To encourage consideration of a wider set of ideas benefiting Earth sys tem science, NASA's Earth Science Division should, in future Earth Venture solicitations, emphasize that science priorities of potential interest encompass the full range of science priorities in the 2017 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine decadal survey Thriving on Our Changing Planet: A Decadal Strategy for Earth Observation from Space.
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