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4 Future Independent Reviews
4 Future Independent Reviews
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2012 NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL REVIEW AND PRIORITIZATION METHODOLOGY In June 2010, Robert Braun, then NASA's chief technologist, requested that the NRC conduct a study of 14 space technology roadmaps that NASA had drafted. In response to this request, the NRC appointed an 18-member steering committee and six study panels with a total of 56 additional experts.
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-- revised every 2 years FY -- pdated space technology roadmaps: incorporated NRC study results U -- eveloping a Strategic Space Technology Investment Plan: current investments, current priorities of D NASA's mission directorates and offices, opportunities for partnerships, gaps vs. current budget and capacities, 20-year horizon with a 4-year cadence • FY 2013 -- Execution -- nvestment portfolio: NASA Technology Executive Council uses SSTIP to make decisions I -- ust accomplish: mission needs and commitments, push opportunities, affordability, technical progress, M programmatic performance As can be seen above, NASA intends to revise the roadmaps every 4 years, followed by an independent review, which then would be used to update the SSTIP, which would in turn guide the execution of the "investment portfolio." The 2010 roadmaps covered all NASA space technologies.
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SUMMARY OF OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT The NASA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) performed an audit of NASA's technology portfolio, the results of which were published in December 2015.4 The OIG profiled the top 15 space technology projects by fiscal year 2015 funding in the following programs: Technology Demonstration Missions Program, Game Changing Development Program, Advanced Exploration Systems Program, and the Science Mission Directorate's Research Divisions.
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Isolating aeronautics from the other 14 roadmaps eliminates the opportunity to assess possible synergies that exist between NASA's space and aeronautics technology portfolios in areas such as materials, electronics, and propulsion, to name just a few examples. PROPOSED METHODOLOGY FOR FUTURE REVIEWS Given the dynamic nature of technology development organization and management, the pace of technology advances, NASA missions, NASA organization, and so on, and because each iteration of the roadmaps and each independent review will result in new lessons learned, it is not useful to come up with a long-range plan for future reviews.
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Before the next independent review, the NASA Technology Executive Council and the Center Technology Council (NTEC/CTC) , in accordance with their charters, should priori tize the technologies that will be examined in the review.
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. It was cited as the highest-priority technology for human spaceflight in the 2012 NRC report, it was one of the three highest priority technical capabilities identified in the 2014 NRC report on human spaceflight,1 and it is well represented in NASA's SSTIP under several core technology investments such as Lightweight Space Structures and Materials, ECLSS, Space Radiation Mitigation, and Scientific Instruments and Sensors.
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As proximate interaction will be an important component of future human space exploration missions, collaborations are also necessary to build and strengthen in-house expertise, allowing NASA to take a lead role in this technology area when it becomes necessary. Examples of Technologies for Watch Status Examples of Watch technologies are 11.4.6, Cyber Infrastructure, and 11.4.8, Cyber Security.
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• Recommendation for the methodology to be used for the review that in turn follows it. In summary, the committee reviewing the 2015 NASA Technology Roadmaps has formulated a methodology for future independent reviews that will reduce their time and cost by (1)
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