Foundations of a Healthy and Vital Research Community for NASA Science (2022) / Chapter Skim
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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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SMD might play a pivotal role in encouraging exchanges across specialties, both within the space and Earth sciences, and across other disciplines, and in so doing strengthen the quality of the data compiled to assess and sustain community health and vitality. FOCUSING ON CLEAR, RELEVANT SCIENCE Successful science is measured by its steady cadence of innovative, high-quality research results.
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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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Strategic visualization tools like a dashboard to track science priorities over time to capture strategic critical skills, aging capabilities and facilities, vulnerable facilities, etc. will support science continuity across multiple domains in the face of unforeseen challenges.
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Because SMD's budget is driven by the president's budget request and congressional authoriza tion and appropriations, NASA SMD should develop an integrated dashboard of annual priorities and budget allocations across all decadal science categories and SMD programs and projects to show at-a-glance investments and progress against science planned missions and the scientific results they deliver. This data visualization tool permits interested members of the science research community, the administration, and members of Congress to view the consistency (or inconsistency)
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DATA AVAILABILITY Although there are many sources of data available to NASA, there are opportunities to better identify and diversify its institutional pool by engaging social and behavioral scientists and similar experts in process development, strategic planning and tracking, cross-correlation of data from multiple sources, and encouraging scholarly use of some of the data. Recommendation: NASA's Science Mission Directorate should consult with external science and technol ogy organizations to examine possible paths to acquire more complete information.
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Mentoring can not only prepare young scientists and engineers from all backgrounds for careers with NASA but also open other opportunities in the engineering and science communities globally. Recommendation: NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD)
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