National Research Council. An Enabling Foundation for NASA's Space and Earth Science Missions

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National Academies Press, Washington, 2010. — 77 p.Contents Summary Overview of the Science Mission Directorate's Mission-Enabling Activities Mission-Enabling Activities—Definition, Purposes Served by Mission-enabling Activities, Knowledge Base to Enable Spaceflight Missions, Technology Development for Spaceflight Missions, Science and Engineering Workforce, Differences in Mission-Enabling Activities Across SMD Discipline Divisions Assessment of NASA’S Mission-Enabling Activities Broad Concerns and Opportunities for Improvement, Ensuring Traceability from Strategic Goals to Mission-enabling Objectives and Activities, Establishing Systematic Allocation of Resources and Metrics for Evaluation of Effectiveness, Obtaining Continual Advisory Input, Establishing Budget Transparency, Sustaining a Capable Technical Workforce, Providing for Adequate SMD Staffing in Support of Mission-Enabling Activities Principles and Metric for Managin Effective Mission-Enabling Portfolios Guiding Principles, Implementation Principles, Metrics, Metrics for Essential Components of a Broad-based Program to Advance Strategic Goals and Maximize Science Return, Metric for Advanced Technology Development, Metric for Workforce Development, Maximizing Program Effectiveness through Strategic Management Traceability of Mission-Enabling Activities from Strategic Goals, High-Risk/High-Payoff Research and Technology Development, Benchmarking Relevant Practices of Other Organizations, Organization and Management, Interdisciplinary Research, Developing and Sustaining a Healthy Technical Workforce, Consolidated Findings and Recommendations Appendixes A Statement of Task B Presentations to the Committee C Traceability of Mission-Enabling Activities from Strategic Goals D Benchmarking High-Risk/High-Payoff Research E Committee and Staff Biographical Information