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Letter Report
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... Burton Edelson Code E NASA Headquarters Washington DC 20546 Dear Burt: . During our 1986 summer meeting, CODMAC studied several data management areas of current importance and concern to the space science community.
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... These activities should include the development or acquisition of hardware and software systems; archival, repository, and active database activities; development of standards; and budgeting and resource control processes as they pertain to computation and data management. That Office should manage the data centers and the information networks that connect data centers, repositories, and active data bases.
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... In CODMAC 2 we noted that, "The present management structure at NASA Headquarters can be utilized to guide development and operation of distributed SSDMU [Space Science Data Management Units] systems.
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