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4 The Recommended Organization
4 The Recommended Organization
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Many of the components of the NASA reference mode} were incorporated into the recommended model. NASA officials emphasized that they remained open to all alternative approaches as Tong as they would support NASA's vision to "develop the low Earth orbit environment for all users in order to more efficiently advance scientific knowledge, technological capability, and commerce on Earth" (NASA, 1998~.
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This watt require that the organization be able to coordinate and consolidate, on behalf of the research community, the processes and interactions with all other NASA offices necessary for the implementation of research activities, including research conducted by NASA's international partners and commercial, private-sector sponsors. It wall also require that the organization have access to other key participants in the ISS program and appropriate authority and sufficient funding to interact with them and to represent the research community in the end-to-end process of ISS research activities.
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Some shared appointments with science and engineering departments of major research universities could considerably enhance the size and impact of the permanent staff. The overriding rationale for the NGO is to have a very strong presence for the research community in the planning, integration, and execution of research performed on the ISS.
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Qualifications of the Director The management challenges associated with leadership of the NGO will be significant. Accordingly, the director will need to have the following qualifications: · Be an internationally recognized, energetic leader in the research community; Possess the skills to recruit a first-rate staff; Be able to manage a large scientific enterprise: and Be able to work effectively with leaders in NASA, the executive branch, and Congress and with the media, the international partners, and the general public.
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The chair of the research advisory council should be an ex-officio member of the governing board. Among the council's duties would be the following: Provide general advice to the director and, through the director, to the governing board; Provide advice on the NGO's strategy, plans, international activities, facilities, and Monitor the balance between in-house work and support for outside research organizations; · Review the NGO's research program; and · Establish appropriate links with NASA's disciplinary scientific advisory groups and the NASA Advisory Council.
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in using the ISS; · Include commercial representation in user groups; and, where appropriate, Leverage funds between NASA and other sources to advance commercial research. The organization would need sufficient flexibility to deal with a wide range of commercial users and funding arrangements.
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The task group expects that formulation of the overall ISS program budget would remain a NASA headquarters responsibility. Working with input and assistance from the NGO on behalf of the research utilization community and with other organizations that have comparable responsibilities in areas such as nonresearch utilization and TSS operations and maintenance, NASA headquarters would play its traditional role in the federal budgeting process.
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NASA headquarters program offices (Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications, Earth Science, Space Science, Aero-Space Technology, and Space Flight) should continue to solicit research proposals, conduct peer reviews, and select and prioritize investigations for research payloads for the ISS.
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The NGO would also · Determine, in coordination with NASA headquarters, assignments to organizations responsible for research payload development. NASA headquarters would provide the financial resources to the selected organizational element when a NASA center is designated, but there would be close coordination through the NGO to ensure consistency of schedule, interfaces, and performance specifications and requirements; .
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The recommended organization has been optimized to provide strong support for research utilization of the ISS, because it would be established and run by the research community for the research community. Elements such as governance by academic and private research organizations, a strong scientific director, a representative research advisory council, user committees made up of active investigators, and a strong cadre of support scientists and engineers on the NGO staff would combine to build this capability.
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The positions must attract and retain capable career researchers. Support scientists would be encouraged to propose their own investigations to be evaluated competitively using the same standards as are applied for extramural researchers, but with no more than 5 to ~ O percent of ISS utilization resources allocated to internal NGO investigators.
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for ISS in which research crew members are selected by the research community, in adherence to rigorous procedures, and whose primary responsibilities are support of on-orbit research operations. The NGO should be responsible for recruitment, selection, and flight assignments of such ISS payload specialists.
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There would be a clear and logical division of roles and functional responsibilities in at least two ways. First, the recommended approach leaves inherently governmental functions (e.~., policy decisions, international and intergovernmental agreements, the federal government .
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Other early transition and implementation tasks would include the following: Recruiting personnel; Establishing the research advisory council and user groupies) ; · Working with NASA field centers that are currently managing ISS research experiments to develop a transition strategy; · Developing the specifics of transferring duties (Figure 4.
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1998. Commercial Development Plan for the Intem~ional Space Station.
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