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4 Opportunities to Improve Alignment with Decadal Survey Priorities
Pages 50-54

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... , retaining competitive opportunities in the Earth System Explorer and Earth Venture lines, and implementing the Designated program element missions to the extent possible within current constraints and consistent with the decadal survey's identified descopes. Additional specific recommendations for each of the Designated program element missions and studies are provided below.
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From page 51...
... 2025 budget request for NASA was released that significantly modified the plans that had been presented to the committee regarding implementation of the Designated program element missions. Because this report is based on a bottom-up review of the program to date, and the conclusions that this report reached are in some cases similar to the changes suggested by NASA in their budget request, the committee believed it was appropriate to leave its original recommendations regarding the Designated program element missions and studies, but to follow those recommendations with short notes regarding similarities and differences between them and the president's FY 2025 budget request.
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From page 52...
... and TO-2 eligible to compete and pursuing a simpler single band radar mission responsive to TO-5. The president's FY 2025 NASA budget request does not include sufficient detail to assess current AOS plans versus the committee's recommendation; however, moving toward a decoupled architecture with smaller missions appears to at least be a step in the same direction.
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From page 53...
... The president's FY 2025 NASA budget request does not include any provision for Surface Deformation and Change beyond NISAR, which differs from the committee's recommendation to preserve the decadal survey's recommendation to pursue Surface Deformation and Change measurements post-NISAR. The committee acknowledges that neither NISAR nor ROSE-L have the same capabilities called for to address the Surface Deformation and Change Targeted Observable and encourages continued consideration after NISAR data becomes available.
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From page 54...
... could not be found from the NASA websites.1 While the announcement of opportunity timelines for various flight programs are communicated in the AGU and AMS town halls, such written information could not be found on the NASA website. Recommendation: NASA's Earth Science Division should improve its communication with the com munity to provide the rationale for the decisions it makes particularly in the face of inadequate resources, including providing timely information about program plans, budgets, and anticipated solicitation timelines through town halls, webinars, and via the NASA website.
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