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More than one-third of NASA's budget is devoted to space science, and the agency currently operates more than 50 space missions in the fields of astrophysics, Earth science, solar and space physics, planetary science, and the biological and physical sciences. The strength of NASA science lies with its people, both those who work directly for the agency and the thousands of researchers and professionals who are funded by NASA grants and contracts.
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Recommendation: NASA's Science Mission Directorate should collect key data and trends representa tive of the research solicitation process and quality of the research produced by the science community. Key indicators and/or efforts include the following: • Metrics of participation (center, type of institution, specific institutions, partnership)
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Recommendation: NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) should use the demographic data col lected through the Office of the Chief Scientist demographic survey to strengthen and evaluate progress in achieving the NASA SMD's diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.
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(Chapter 4, Recommendation 5) ENGAGING SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENTISTS IN STRATEGICALLY SHAPING THE PEOPLE ENTERPRISE This study recognizes that while diversity can be a driver of innovation, the science enterprise can be at its most innovative only when it finds the means to maximize and fully utilize the broadest range of human talent (Hewlett et al.
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DECADAL STATE OF THE PROFESSION ASSESSMENTS The discipline decadal surveys have given significant consideration to the current and future health of their communities and have made many valuable recommendations. Recommendation: NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD)
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Key data to include are the ratio of directed to competed research dollars, numbers of grants per PI/co-investigator (Co-I) /Science PI, grant award success rates per PI/Co-I/Science PI, numbers of supported research contracts per PI/ Co-I/Science PI and/or hours per week expected to support specific research contracts.
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Recommendation: NASA's Science Mission Directorate should use diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) indicators from collected demographic data to identify characteristics associated with success for space and Earth science careers and research health and performance.
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should develop a mentor-protégé pro gram for minority serving institutions, including historically black colleges and universities, Hispanic serving institutions, tribal colleges and universities, Asian American and Pacific Islander–serving institutions, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian institutions, Native American–serving non-tribal institutions, predominantly Black institutions, etc., to help them train and develop principal investiga tors and researchers. In addition, SMD should continue to work closely with outside professional societies -- for example, the American Physical Society, the American Astronomical Society, the American Geophysical Union, etc., in development and expansion of mentoring programs.
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SMD funds more than 3,000 openly competed research awards with universities, industry, and government laboratories. SMD reports its extensive reach in its "Share the Science" website, with "54 balloon missions in development, 23 Earthobserving operating missions, 5 upcoming Earth system observatory missions, 2 launched sounding rockets with 45 science missions in development, 49 SmallSats/CubeSats science missions and 29 technology demos, with 114 missions from formulation through extended operations."1 THE OPPORTUNITY: SHAPING THE FUTURE OF THE SCIENCE AND RESEARCH COMMUNITY Discovery in each science discipline is enabled by technology and instrument innovation, but more importantly, fueled by the energy and creativity of researchers, students, postdocs, scientists, data analysts, engineers, 1 NASA, "Science by the Numbers," NASA Science, https://science.nasa.gov, accessed March 3, 2022.
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