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Appendix C: Traceability of Mission-Enabling Activities from Strategic Goals
Pages 54-55

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... Appropriately sizing a mission-enabling activity within a single program element, instead of fragmenting its funding across several program elements, offers benefits to both managers and scientists. Having identified firmly grounded funding levels for all mission-enabling activities and programs, all linked to and flowing from strategic goals, comparisons with existing budgets will likely reveal a range of disparate results from substantial funding to no funding at all.
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... Program Element: Planetary Astronomy FIGURE C.1 Sample Science Mission Directorate Planetary Science Division traceability matrix (thread)
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