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4 Cooperative Development of Space Technologies
4 Cooperative Development of Space Technologies
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If the approach is not well organized, valuable technologies could be overlooked rather than incorporated into spacecraft. This chapter examines how NASA currently manages technology development and suggests how the agency could work more effectively with industry and universities to develop advanced space technologies.
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Assessment of the New Technology Development Process Decentralization NASA' s new approach of decentralizing control of technology development seems to be in keeping with the agency' s goals of pushing frontiers and defining missions that have challenging requirements. This model has many similarities with the approach commercial organizations have taken to successfully managing technology development when time-to-market is critical, by placing a premium on developing highly relevant technology and efficiently produced products.
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requires that NASA also pursue R&T that goes beyond the immediate requirements of the enterprise missions. Because NASA enterprises are necessarily mission-oriented, however, their primary charters do not require them to support R&T that leads to the development of technologies that are broadly useful across a wide variety of future space activities (including commercial space activities)
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COOPERATIVE PROGRAMS Government agencies, private companies, and universities operate on different time scales, bring different assets to bear on problems, and have different motivations. Understanding these differences is essential to developing successful cooperative strategies for advanced space technology development.
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A major reason is that the NASA centers have traditionally focused on space operations rather than on sponsoring fundamental space engineering research in universities and in the aerospace industry. (This is in contrast to NASA's aeronautics R&T, which is largely conducted in close coordination with academia and industry.)
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Building Cooperative Programs By opening up its space R&T to the larger aerospace community, NASA will be able to fund a large number of projects with a limited budget, harness the brain power and creativity of universities, and take advantage of industrial expertise. Coalitions of university, industry, and NASA center personnel could also become a powerful combination of stakeholders in shaping future programs.
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and universities to achieve this goal. Potential Cooperative Approach 1: Technology and Personnel Transfer One way NASA could tap into the intellectual vigor of universities would be to initiate a vigorous program of sending distinguished NASA scientists and engineers to work at universities for periods of approximately one year.
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The peer review by representatives from NASA, industry, and universities would help to ensure open competition, prevent overly close relationships from forming between NASA and particular university groups, and result in R&T that is forward looking but directed towards future real-world applications. RECOMMENDATIONS Recommendation 3.
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W~Nng~n, D.C~ NASA. Neons AemnauUcs Ad Space Act of 1938 (Space Acp, Public Law 83-368, 72 Stat., 426.
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