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5.5 Decadal Science Strategy Surveys: Report of a Workshop
5.5 Decadal Science Strategy Surveys: Report of a Workshop
Pages 63-65
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Workshop Background NRC decadal surveys provide broad assessments of the status of research fields, and they develop recommendations for scientific and programmatic priorities for future investments in the fields. Workshop participants from both inside and outside the government shared the view that the decadal surveys are important, especially because they have positive impacts on federal agency planning and decision making and on science community unity.
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must be held separately from the project manager's mission or facility development budget contingency funds. Finally, several participants noted that survey committees would be wise to start with a more realistic sense of agency budgetary and policy environments and to build stronger partnerships with agencies so that surveys can be more resilient.
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Therefore, agencies need to give extra attention to integrating such cooperative efforts as effectively as possible. Second, participants noted that as long as human exploration of space is a major national space goal, future surveys should not altogether ignore such exploration.
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