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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
June 18, 2004 Current Operating Status
On "Concurrence" and the Role of the NASA Chief
Scientist
On December 12, 1995, Space Studies Board Chair Claude R. Canizares and the
Committee on the Future of Space Science Chair John A. Armstrong sent the
following letter to NASA Chief Scientist France Cordova.
On behalf of our colleagues, we wish to thank you and your associates in NASA
management for the detailed and thoughtful response you are developing to the
recent report of the Space Studies Board’s Committee on the Future of Space
Science, entitled Managing the Space Sciences. It appears from these draft
responses and from the discussion of them at the Board meeting on November 28
that the report uses the term "concurrence" in a way that has led to some
misunderstanding. This letter is intended to clarify the report’s recommendation
that the NASA Chief Scientist be given formal concurrence authority with respect to
matters of science budgets, programs, and plans.
In the report, "concurrence" is not meant to imply an additional level of line
management interposed between the NASA Administrator and the science
associate administrators. On the contrary, the intent of the report is that the
associate administrators will continue to present their plans, budgets, and
programs directly to the Administrator, as at present. They will report, as now,
directly to the Administrator.
The report’s recommendation on concurrence does propose the establishment of a
formal procedure whereby, at presentations of plans and budgets by the science
associate administrators, the Administrator would ask the Chief Scientist for a
position on what has been proposed. The expectation would be that if the Chief
Scientist did not support a particular proposal, he or she would explain why not. Of
course, the Administrator would be completely free, as he is now, to overrule the
views of the Chief Scientist (as he is also free to reject proposals made by senior
line management). In practice, the Chief Scientist consults with the associate
administrators throughout the process of developing plans and budgets, and the
great majority of potential sources of disagreement and nonconcurrence would be
resolved long before they reach the Administrator.
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The committee and Board believe that the proposed concurrence mechanism
corresponds fairly well to present, but informal, practice. The committee’s report
suggests, however, that this mechanism, if formalized and adopted by the
Administrator, would strengthen the coordinating role that the Chief Scientist is
expected to perform across the agency’s science programs. The committee and
Board further expect that formalizing the concurrence function of the Chief Scientist
would increase the appeal of that position to highly qualified candidates in the
future.
Members of our committee would be pleased to meet with NASA officials to
discuss this or other recommendations of the report; such a meeting might provide
a good opportunity, in particular, to explore the report’s recommendations on the
research prioritization process.
FOSS and SSB Membership
FUTURE OF SPACE SCIENCE STEERING GROUP
John A. Armstrong, IBM Corporation (retired), Chair
Anthony W. England, University of Michigan
Daniel J. Fink, D.J. Fink Associates, Inc.
Ursula W. Goodenough, Washington University
John M. Hedgepeth, Digisim, Inc.
Jeanne E. Pemberton, University of Arizona
William Press, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
P. Buford Price, University of California at Berkeley
Roland W. Schmitt, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (retired)
Guyford Stever (retired)
James Wyngaarden, National Institutes of Health (retired)
Marc S. Allen, Study Director
Carmela J. Chamberlain, Senior Program Assistant
Nathaniel B. Cohen, Consultant
SPACE STUDIES BOARD
Claude R. Canizares, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chair
John A. Armstrong, IBM Corporation (retired)
James P. Bagian, Environmental Protection Agency
Daniel N. Baker, University of Colorado
Lawrence Bogorad, Harvard University
Donald E. Brownlee, University of Washington
John J. Donegan, John Donegan Associates, Inc.
Anthony W. England, University of Michigan
Daniel J. Fink, D.J. Fink Associates, Inc.
Martin E. Glicksman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Ronald Greeley, Arizona State University
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Bill Green, former member, U.S. House of Representatives
Noel W. Hinners, Lockheed Martin Astronautics
Janet G. Luhmann, University of California at Berkeley
John H. McElroy, University of Texas at Arlington
Roberta Balstad Miller, CIESIN
Berrien Moore III, University of New Hampshire
Mary Jane Osborn, University of Connecticut Health Center
Simon Ostrach, Case Western Reserve University
Carlé M. Pieters, Brown University
Marcia J. Rieke, University of Arizona
Roland W. Schmitt, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (retired)
John A. Simpson, University of Chicago
Robert E. Williams, Space Telescope Science Institute
Marc S. Allen, Director
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