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VII. Creating a Living Strategic Plan
Pages 11-15

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... VII. CREATING A LIVING STRATEGIC PLAN To keep pace with changing research demands, rapidly changing technologies, the growth in the commercial remote sensing industry, and an evolving user community, NASA will have to rethink its strategy for Earth science research and observations every several years, while maintaining sufficient programmatic continuity to manage space missions.
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From page 12...
... The NASA document "Comparison of the 2000-2010 Research Strategy with Relevant Recommendations of the National Academy of Science/National Research Council" (Appendix B) contains many of the elements of an effective strategic summary arid provides a useful mode} for fixture versions of the Plan, as does Exploring Our Home Planet: The Earth Science Enterprise Strategic Plan.30 The modified Plan should be released to the public as soon as possible.
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... in the NPOESS context.32 Some of these issues are addressed in the NASA document Exploring Our Home Planet: The Earth Science Enterprise Strategic Plan, which includes tables mapping the science questions against missions (including NPP) through 2010, and a more general observational strategy through 2040.
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... However, none of these systemsEOSDIS, New DISS, or the Federation are mentioned in the Plan. Similarly, there is no discussion of data and information in the full ESE Science Implementation Plan or the Earth Science Enterprise Strategic Plan.
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... The ESE mission statement could be strengthened by highlighting NASA's strength in furthering science through space-borne missions. Although the science issues and questions all concern interactions among several disciplines, the full ESE Science Implementation Plan (of which the ESE Research Strategy is the overview)
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