SMD Mission Support Activities Rev9:

[Slide 1]: 
Heading 1: Overview of SMD’s mission enabling Activities in NASA’s Earth and Space Science Missions:
Paul Hertz, Chief Scientist; Max Bernstein, Lead for Research; Marc Allen, AAA for Strategy, Policy, and International,
NRC Study on mission enabling Activities in NASA Science Missions, January 22, 2009.

[Slide 2]: 
Heading 1: Opening Message:
• The SMD program is opportunity rich:
– Supports investigations from less than $20K to large missions;
• Up to half of the budget is mission enabling:
– approximately 50% of budget is mission development and mission operations,
– Mission enabling activities are embedded in every program,
– At least 25% of non-mission budget is technology development;
• The program has evolved over 50 years to a balance between mission and mission enabling:
– The overall balance has been fairly stable over time;
• The NASA science program is the only space science program in the world with an integral and substantial R&A program:
– It is arguably the best structured program for scientific exploration in space, of space, and from space.

[Slide 3]: 
Heading 1: Role of Mission Enabling Activities:
• Primary: Support NASA’s science flight missions:
– New instrument development,
– Supporting ground-based and suborbital research,
– Theoretical investigations and modeling,
– Managing and providing access to data,
– Mission data analysis,
– Providing computing, curatorial, and research capabilities;
• Also: Many other, broader societal benefits:
– Science to support public policy making, including Earth applications,
– Fundamental scientific breakthroughs,
– New technology with commercial spinoff value,
– Research that supports other Federal goals, including national security and climate change research,
– Science diplomacy (international cooperation) and national prestige,
– Strengthen U.S. universities and other research institutions,
– Develop U.S. technical and aerospace industrial base,
– Contribute to STEM education (K-12),
– Promote citizen science literacy and intangible enrichment of understanding of the cosmos (public affairs and informal education),
– Promote STEM workforce development.

[Slide 4]: 
Heading 1: What is Mission Enabling:
• Mission enabling activities include:
– Research activities including individual investigator-led and group investigations,
– Technology development activities,
– Suborbital projects including sounding rockets, scientific balloons, and airborne science,
– Calibration and validation activities, supporting field campaigns,
– Data archives, modeling, high-end computing, facilities and infrastructure, astromaterials curation,
– Science Teams (mission science teams, participating scientists, science working groups, science definition teams).
• Education/Public Outreach
• Earth science applications

[Slide 5]: 
Heading 1: Cycle of Discovery: 
Cycle of discovery pathway: Legislation sets missions, leads to Missions Enabling Research, leads to Mission Enabling Technology and to new Missions etc. 
There are benefits to public and to education; cycle of discovery influenced by input from Committees and Academy.
Illustrations of Cycle of Discovery provided: U.S. Capitol, Saturn exploration, park, research lab, technology, teaching. 

[Slide 6]: 
Heading 1: SMD Fiscal Year 09 Budget Approximate Breakout:
Pie chart for SMD Fiscal Year 09 Budget Approximate Breakout: 
Areas indicated: Pre-Phase A, Technology, Management and Other; Research and Analysis; Mission Science Teams and Data Analysis; Communications, Data Archives and Computing; Missions in Phase A to D, Mission Operations.

[Slide 7]:  
Heading 1: Fiscal Year 08 Mission Enabling Budget:
Pie chart for Fiscal Year 08 Mission Enabling Budget:
Total: $1025 Million dollars; does not include science teams, or focused technology development.
Applications, $25, 2%:
“Applications” includes:
• Earth science applications program,
Research, $302, 30%:
“Research” includes:
• Basic research, 
• Research facilities, 
• High-end computing.
Technology, $266, 26%:
“Technology” includes: 
• Technology development, 
• Suborbital payloads/missions, 
• Suborbital capabilities.
Data, $431, 42%:
“Data” includes: 
• GO and Data Analysis Programs, 
• Data Systems, 
• Data Archives. 

[Slide 8]: 
Heading 1: Naming Names: 
• Investigator-led research activities have many names:
– Research and Analysis (R&A),
– Supporting Research and Technology (SR&T),
– Data Analysis (DA) including Guest Investigator, Guest Observer, General Observer (GI or GO), or Data Analysis Program (DAP) opportunities,
– Research and Data Analysis (R&DA),
– “Grant programs”;
• NASA does not have “grant programs” per se: 
– NASA has competitive science research programs,
– The objective is to advance NASA’s science objectives, not to issue grants,
– Grants are a procurement vehicle for universities and other proposing organizations;
• Here “research”is often used instead of “mission enabling”.

[Slide 9]: 
Heading 1: Managing SMD’s Mission Enabling Activities:

[Slide 10]: 
Heading 1: NASA’s Strategic Goals:
Heading 2: U.S. Space Exploration Policy:
• To advance U.S. scientific, security, and economic interests through a robust space exploration program. 
Heading 2: NASA’s Mission:
• To pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research.
Heading 2: NASA’s Strategic Goals in Science:
• Study Earth from space to advance scientific understanding and meet societal needs. 
• Understand the Sun and its effects on Earth and the solar system. 
• Advance scientific knowledge of the origin and history of the solar system, the potential for life elsewhere, and the hazards and resources present as humans explore space.
• Discover the origin, structure, evolution, and destiny of the universe, and search for Earth-like planets.
[Descriptions taken from the 2006 NASA Strategic Plan]

[Slide 11:
SMD: Science Mission Directorate, Earth Science (image, Earth from orbit); Heliophysics (image, solar surface); Planetary Science (image, Sun, planets, asteroids), Astsrophysics (image, universe from particle to nebulae scale).

[Slide 12]: 
Heading 1: SMD Organization:
SMD organization flow chart; entries are listed in top-down, left-right order]: 
Heading 2: Associate Administrator (A A) (Ed Weiler), Deputy A A (Chuck Gay);
Deputy A A for Programs (Mike Luther),
Chief Scientist (Paul Hertz),
Lead for Research, (Co-located from Planetary Science Division), (Max Bernstein),
Lead for E/PO, (Co-located from Earth Science Division), (Stephanie Stockman),
Deputy A A for Management (Roy Maizel),
A A A for Strategy, Policy & International (Marc Allen),
Senior Advisor (Colleen Hartman),
Chief Engineer (K. Ledbetter), supports SMD but reports to another organization,
Safety & Mission Assurance (P. Martin), supports SMD but reports to another organization,
Six divisions are listed with supporting personnel:
Astrophysics Division: Director (J. Morse), Deputy (R. Howard),
Earth Science Division: Director (M. Freilich), Deputy (M. Luce-Act), Flight (S. Volz), Applied Science (T. Fryberger), Research (J. Kaye),
Heliophysics Division: Director (R. Fisher), Deputy (V. Elsbernd),
Planetary Science Division: Director (J. Green), Deputy (J. Adams),
Mars Program: (D. McCuistion),
Resource Management Division: Director (C. Tupper-Acting), Deputy (Vacant),
Strategic Integration & Management Division: Director (D. Woods, Acting), Deputy (Vacant),
Draft: January 12, 2009.

[Slide 13]:  
Heading 1: SMD Programs:
Organization Chart: 
Heading 2: Science Mission Directorate:
Each of four Science Mission Directorate Divisions followed by its component programs: 
Planetary Science Division: New Frontiers, Mars Exploration, Discovery, Planetary Science Research, Outer Planets, Planetary Science Technology;
Earth Science Division: 
Earth System Science Pathfinder, Earth Systematic Missions, Applied Sciences, Earth Science Research, ESS Multi-mission Operations, Earth Science Technology, Education and Outreach;
Astrophysics Division: Astrophysics Research, Cosmic Origins, Physics of the Cosmos, Exoplanet Exploration, Astrophysics Explorer;
Heliophysics Division: Living with a Star, Solar Terrestrial Probes, New Millennium, Heliophysics Explorer, Heliophysics Research.

[Slide 14:
For the following chart entries the notation X slash Y equals the number of missions slash the number of spacecraft:
Chart updated August 8, 2008;
For further assistance please contact SARA@nasa.gov.
Heading 1: Total Missions/Spacecraft, 91/102,
Heading 2: Formulation 13 17: 
Heading 3 JPL, 5:
Components for JPL, 5:
NuSTAR (Astrophysics),
JUNO (Planetary Science), 
GRAIL (Planetary Science),
ExoMars (Planetary Science, US instruments on foreign mission),
MAVEN or TGE (Planetary Science, Mars Scout-2 mission; select one of two in mid-2008);
Heading 3: GSFC, 8/12:
Components of GSFC, 8/12:
LDCM (Earth Science), 
GPM (Earth Science), 
GPM Const (Earth Science),
MMS (4) (Heliophysics),
RBSP (2) (Heliophysics),
SMEX (2012 or 2015) (Heliophysics),
SMEX (2012 or 2015) (Astrophysics), 
NEXT (SXS) (Astrophysics, US instruments on foreign mission);
Heading 3: MSFC 0 (no component programs listed);
Heading 2: Implementation 22/18:
Heading 3: JPL 11/9:
Components for JPL 11/9:
Keck (1/0) (Astrophysics), 
Herschel (Astrophysics, US instruments on foreign mission),
Planck  (Astrophysics, US instruments on foreign mission),
LBTI (1/0) (Astrophysics),
Kepler (Astrophysics), 
WISE (Astrophysics), 
ST-7 (Heliophysics), 
OCO (Earth Science), 
Aquarius (Earth Science, US instruments on foreign mission), 
M3 (Planetary Science, US instruments on foreign mission),
MSL (Planetary Science);
Heading 3: GSFC 10/9:
Components for GSFC 10/9:
HST-SM4 (1/0) (Astrophysics),
JWST (Astrophysics),
GOES-O (Earth Science),
GOES-P (Earth Science),
NOAA-N (Earth Science, Operated by commercial partner),
Glory (Earth Science), 
NPP (Earth Science), 
SDO (Heliophysics), 
IBEX (Heliophysics),
SET-1 (Heliophysics); 
Heading 3: DFRC 1/0:
Components for DFRC 1/0: 
SOFIA (1/0) (Astrophysics),
Heading 2: Primary Ops 23/28: 
Heading 3: JPL 9:
Components for JPL 9:
Spitzer (Astrophysics), 
OSTM (Earth Science),
Cassini (Planetary Science),
MRO (Planetary Science), 
Rosetta (Planetary Science, US instruments on foreign mission),
Phoenix (Planetary Science), 
DAWN (Planetary Science),
EPOXI (Planetary Science, New mission for Deep Impact),
NExT (Planetary Science, New mission for Stardust);
Heading 3: GSFC 10/15:
Components for GSFC 10/15:
GLAST (Astrophysics), 
Suzaku (Astrophysics, US instruments on foreign mission), 
Aqua (Earth Science), 
Aura (Earth Science), 
STEREO (2) (Heliophysics), 
TWINS-A (Heliophysics),
THEMIS (5) (Heliophysics),
AIM (Heliophysics),
CINDI (Heliophysics),
TWINS-B (Heliophysics);
Heading 3: MSFC 3:
Components for MSFC 3:
Hinode (Heliophysics, US instruments on foreign mission), 
MESSENGER (Planetary Science),
New Horizons (Planetary Science);
Heading 3: LaRC 1:
Components for LaRC 1:
CALIPSO (Earth Science);
Heading 2: Extended Ops 33/39:
Heading 3: JPL 10/13:
Components for JPL 10/13:
GALEX (Astrophysics), 
Cloudsat (Earth Science), 
ACRIMsat (Earth Science),
GRACE (2) (Earth Science),
Jason-1 (Earth Science),
QuikSCAT (Earth Science),
Voyager (2) (Heliophysics), 
Mars Express (Planetary Science, US instruments on foreign mission),
Mars Odyssey (Planetary Science), 
MER (2) (Planetary Science);
Heading 3: GSFC 22/25:
Components for GSFC 22/25: 
HST (Astrophysics), 
Integral (Astrophysics, US instruments on foreign misison),
RXTE (Astrophysics),
WMAP (Astrophysics),
XMM (Astrophysics),
SWIFT (Astrophysics),
SORCE (Earth Science), 
EO-1 (Earth Science),
ICEsat (Earth Science),
Terra (Earth Science),
TRMM (Earth Science),
Landsat7 (Earth Science, Operated by USGS),
SeaWiFS (Earth Science, operated by commercial partner),
Cluster-2 (4) (Heliophysics, US instruments on foreign mission),
FAST (Heliophysics);
Heliophysics components for FAST:
RHESSI, SOHO, TIMED, TRACE, WIND, ACE, GEOTAIL:
Heading 3: MSFC 1:
Components for MSFC 1: Chandra (Astrophysics);
In concept development:
JDEM, Sim-Lite, LASA, Con-X( Astrophysics), LADEE, ILN, OPF (Planetary Science), SMAP, ICESat-II (Earth Science), Solar Probe + (Heliophysics); For further assistance please contact SARA@nasa.gov: 
KECK, LBTI, and HST-SM4 are mission projects but do not themselves add spacecraft.

[Slide 15:
Heading 1: NASA Science Mission Launches
As of November 17, 2008:
For further assistance contact SARA@nasa.org.
Heading 3: 2008 Missions: 
NASA Missions on US ELV: GLAST and IBEX, Successfully launched,
Joint NASA – International Partner Mission: OSTIM, Successfully launched,
DoD Mission with Substantial NASA Contribution: CINDI and TWINS-B, Successfully launched,
International Mission with Substantial NASA Contribution: Chandrayaan, Successfully launched;
Heading 3: 2009 Missions:
ESMD mission with SMD participation: LRO/LCROSS,
NASA Missions on US ELV: OCO, Glory, MSL, WISE, Kepler, SOFIA (early science flight),
NASA Mission on STS: HST SM-4,
Reimbursable for NOAA; GOES-O, NOAA-N [operated by commercial partner],
International Missions with Substantial NASA Contribution, Herschel, Planck;
Heading 3: 2010 Missions:
NASA Missions on US ELV: SDO and NPP,
Joint NASA – International Partner Mission: Aquarius,
Reimbursable for NOAA: GOES-P,
International Mission with Substantial NASA Contribution: ST-7;
Heading 3: 2011 Missions:
NASA Missions on US ELV: RBSP, Juno, NuSTAR, GRAIL, LADEE, LWS SET-1,
Heading 3: 2012 Missions:
NASA Missions on US ELV: LDCM, SMEX-12;
Heading 3: 2013 Missions: 
NASA Missions on US ELV: Venture 1, GOLD, MAVEN, ILN 1/2, SMAP,
Joint NASA – International Partner Mission: GPM Core,
International Mission with Substantial NASA Contribution; Astro-H;
Heading 3: 2014 Missions:
NASA Missions on US ELV: MMS, GPM Const, Discovery-12, SMEX-13, 
Jooint NASA – International Partner Mission: JWST,
Reimbursable for NOAA: GOES-R;
Heading 3: 2015 Missions:
NASA Missions on US ELV: ICE Sat-I I, JDEM, Venture 2;
Heading 3: 2016 Missions:
NASA Missions on US ELV: Mars 2016, ILN 3/4, EX-1, ExoMars;
Heading 3: 2017 Missions:
NASA Misisons on US ELV: ESDS-3, Venture 3, Discovery-13, New Frontiers, ExEP-M1, EX-2,
Reimbursable for NOAA: GOES-S,
International Mission with Substantial NASA Contribution: Solar Orbiter.
[Slide 16]: 
Heading 1: SMD’s Principles:
• Investment choices first consider scientific merit:
– SMD will use open competition and scientific peer review as the primary means for establishing merit for selection of research and flight programs.
• Active participation by the research community outside NASA is critical to success: 
– SMD will engage the external science community in establishing science priorities, preparation and review of plans to implement those priorities, analysis of requirements trade studies, conduct of research, and evaluation of program performance.
• The pace of scientific discovery is fueled by prompt, broad, and easy access to research data:
– SMD will ensure vigorous and timely interpretation of mission data by requiring that data acquired be made publicly available as soon as possible after scientific validation.

[Slide 17]:  
Heading 1: SMD’s Principles:
• Partnerships are essential to achieving NASA’s science objectives: 
– Other nations and agencies are engaged in space and Earth science. NASA and SMD will partner with other national and international organizations to leverage NASA’s investment and achieve national goals.
• Partnerships are essential to realizing relevant societal benefits from NASA’s research: 
– Beyond increasing scientific understanding, many NASA programs produce results with practical societal benefits. NASA and SMD will forge partnerships with other U.S. Federal agencies to facilitate their use of NASA research data and science results in their operational products and services.
• The NASA mandate includes broad public communication:
– SMD will convey the results and excitement of our programs through formal education and public engagement. SMD will seek opportunities to promote student interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines and careers. 

[Slide 18]: 
Heading 1: SMD’s Principles: 
• Sustained progress in advancing U.S. space and Earth science interests requires investments across a broad range of activities:
– The range of activities include basic research to understand the scientific challenges, technology development to enable new capabilities, space mission development to acquire the vital new data, and supporting science and infrastructure systems to ensure delivery of high value scientific results to the science community and the general public.
– NASA will consider the long-term sustainable health of the necessary scientific disciplines and communities that enable progress towards NASA’s scientific objectives when determining the mix of research and mission investments.
– NASA and SMD will maintain essential technical capabilities at the NASA Centers to plan for the future, lead strategic missions, and assist NASA sponsored community research and mission 
developments.

[Slide 19]: 
Heading 1: SMD’s Principles:
(the following list item continues the list following the bullet head for “Sustained progress in advancing U.S. space and Earth Science interests”:
– SMD will establish mission lines that enable competitive selection, funding, and management of classes of missions based upon the focus of the science outcome. Some missions are focused on specific science questions, and some missions are focused on providing foundational data sets that researchers will be using for decades to come. In the first case, PI leadership has proven to be a successful strategy for maintaining science focus and technical discipline. In the second case, strategic missions with guidance from a representative science team is more appropriate.
• The Nation looks to NASA for innovation in space:
– SMD will accelerate the pace of scientific discovery through advanced technologies that will enable and enhance new space missions; shorten the mission development cycle; and speed the use of observation, model, and research results in the planning of future and the operation of current missions and systems.
[SMD’s Principles are from the NASA Science Plan (The Science Plan for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (2007-2016)].

[Slide 20]:  
Heading 1: Structure of the SMD Research Budget:
• Research is a part of everything we do, and it is a part of every budget line:
– NASA’s budget is organized into Directorates, Themes/Divisions, Programs, Projects, and Activities.
– Every flight Program includes research activities for its missions in addition to development (including PI-led mission development and PI-led instrument development) and operations (including science operations and data processing): technology development, science teams, participating scientists and interdisciplinary scientists, data analysis, calibration and validation, research fellowships, etc.
– Research Programs include non-flight projects and activities such as research and analysis (R&A), supporting research and technology (SR&T), suborbital projects (Airborne, Balloon, Sounding Rocket), data analysis (DA), general observers, archives, modeling, field campaigns, research facilities, computing, etc.
– There is no set of budget lines that can provide the total SMD research budget.

[Slide 21]: 
Heading 1: NASA Fiscal Year 09 President’s Budget Request:
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Category; Fiscal Year 2007, Fiscal Year 2008, Fiscal Year 2009, Fiscal Year 2010, Fiscal Year 2011, Fiscal Year 2012, Fiscal Year 2013:
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Category and for Fiscal Year 2007, Fiscal Year 2008, Fiscal Year 2009, Fiscal Year 2010, Fiscal Year 2011, Fiscal Year 2012, and Fiscal Year 2013:
Row 2: Total NASA; $16,231.0; $17,300.5; $17,610.7; $18,022.9; $18,457.0; $18,901.6; $19,355.4,
Row 3: Science; $4,609.9; $4,706.2; $4,441.5; $4,482.0; $4,534.9; $4,643.4; $4,761.6,
Row 4: Earth Science; $1,198.5; $1,280.3; $1,367.5; $1,350.7; $1,250.9; $1,264.4; $1,290.3,
Row 5: Planetary Science; $1,215.6; $1,247.5; $1,334.2; $1,410.1; $1,537.5; $1,570.0; $1,608.7,
Row 6: Astrophysics; $1,365.0; $1,337.5; $1,164.5; $1,122.4; $1,057.1; $1,067.7; $1,116.0,
Row 7: Heliophysics; $583.7; $590.9; $575.3; $598.9; $689.4; $741.2; $746.6,
Row 8: DSN / Ground Network; $247.2; $250.0 (no further fiscal year entries provided for Row 8),
Row 9: Aeronautics Research; $593.8; $511.7; $446.5; $447.5; $452.4; $456.7; $467.7,
Row 10: Education; $114.1; $137.9; $112.1; $122.7; $120.4; $120.4; $120.4,
Row 11: Exploration Systems; $2,837.6; $3,143.0; $3,500.5; $3,737.7; $7,048.2; $7,116.8; $7,666.8,
Row 12: Constellation Systems; $2,114.7; $2,471.9; $3,048.2; $3,252.8; $6,479.5; $6,521.3; $7,080.5,
Row 13: Advanced Capabilities; $722.9; $671.1; $452.3; $484.9; $568.7; $595.5; $586.3,
Row 14: Space Operations; $5,093.5; $5,526.2; $5,774.7; $5,872.7; $2,900.1; $3,089.9; $2,788.5,
Row 15: Space Shuttle; $3,295.3; $3,266.7; $2,981.7; $2,983.6; $95.7 (no further fiscal year entries provided for Row 15),
Row 16: International Space Station ; $1,469.0; $1,813.2; $2,060.2; $2,277.0; $2,176.4; $2,448.2; $2,143.1,
Row 17: Space and Flight Support (SFS); $329.2; $446.3; $732.8; $612.1; $628.0; $641.7; $645.4,
Row 18: Cross-Agency Support; $2,949.9; $3,242.9; $3,299.9; $3,323.9; $3,363.7; $3,436.1; $3,511.2,
Row 19: Agency Management and Operations; $971.2; $830.2; $945.6; $945.5; $939.8; $950.5; $961.3,
Row 20: Institutional Investments; $223.8; $319.7; $308.7; $331.7; $335.9; $330.4; $338.3,
Row 21: Congressionally Directed Items, Fiscal Year 2008: $80.0 (no further fiscal year entries provided for Row 21),
Row 22: Center Management and Operations; $1,754.9; $2,013.0; $2,045.6; $2,046.7; $2,088.0; $2,155.2; $2,211.6,
Row 23: Inspector General; $32.2; $32.6; $35.5; $36.4; $37.3; $38.3; $39.2;
End table.

[Slide 22]:  
Heading 1: Structure of the SMD Budget:
• Research is part of everything we do, and it is a part of every budget line: 
– Budget is distributed as a component of every program and every project, 
– Different divisions bookkeep their research budgets in different ways:
• E.g. Science teams can be embedded in individual flight projectsor funded from a research project – some are R&A, some are not, 
• E.g. Data analysis can be embedded in individual flight projectsor funded from a research project – some are R&A, some are not; 
• Research is a “program line”in the NASA budget:
– R&A is only one “project”in the “program”, 
– Mission operations, 
– Data analysis, 
– Suborbital projects, 
– Data archives, 
– Etc.

[Slide 23]: 
Heading 1: SMD Programs:
Heading 2: Science Mission Directorate:
Each Division is listed followed by its component programs; all listed programs are programs that contain mission enabling projects or budget lines with the exception of Applied Sciences and Education and Outreach for Earth Science Division (these depend on definition of mission enabling):  
Heading 3: Panetary ScienceDivision: 
New Frontiers, 
Mars Exploration, 
Discovery, 
Planetary Science Research, 
Outer Planets, 
Planetary Science Technology;
Heading 3: Earth Science Division: 
Earth System Science Pathfinder, 
Earth Systematic Missions, 
Applied Sciences, 
Earth Science Research, 
ESS Multi-mission Operations, 
Earth Science Technology, 
Education and Outreach;
Heading 3: Astrophysics Division: 
Astrophysics Research, 
Cosmic Origins, 
Physics of the Cosmos, 
Exoplanet Exploration, 
Astrophysics Explorer;
Heading 3: Heliophysics Division: 
Living with a Star, 
Solar Terrestrial Probes, 
New Millennium, 
Heliophysics Explorer, 
Heliophysics Research.

[Slide 24]:  
Heading 3: Components of the SMD Research Budget: 
• “Standard” R&A:
– R&A project (each Division has one in its Research Program),
– R&A embedded in flight programs (e.g. Mars, Living With a Star, Physics of the Cosmos),
– Technology in a program (Earth Science Technology) or distributed;
• Data analysis (other than traditional R&A): 
– General Observer/Guest Investigator programs,
– Archival data analysis programs,
– Mission or program specific data analysis programs,
– Data archive, virtual observatory, etc.
• Science Teams (other than traditional R&A):
– PI teams for missions and instruments selected through AO,
– Additional team members selected through competition:
• Science teams, participating scientists, interdisciplinary scientists, science working group members, etc.

[Slide 25]: 
Heading 1: Structure of the SMD Research Budget:  
Heading 2: Other Mission Enabling Activities (all discussed later): 
Heading 3: Earth Science:
EOS Science, Mission Science Teams, Airborne Science, Data Systems, High-End Computing, Technology Development;
Heading 3: Planetary Science:
Mission Science Teams, Planetary Data System, Astromaterials Curation;
Heading 3: Heliophysics: 
Mission Science Teams, Sounding Rockets , Research Range, Data and Modeling Centers;
Heading 3: Astrophysics:
Guest Observer Programs, Mission Science Teams, Scientific Balloons, Data Centers;
Earth Science applications and Education/Public Outreach are not discussed.

[Slide 26]:
Heading 1:  Structure of the SMD Research Budget: 
• Flagship missions enable NASA to meet science objectives,
• Significant community funding is associated with large missions [Data (except Chandra) is from a 2005 snapshot and has not been updated.]:
– Hubble Space Telescope: Development of instruments provided over $1.2B to 10 instrument teams; Observing enabled 6510 GO grants over 15years providing $283M to 4138 investigators, 1323 postdocs, 1852 grad students.
– Earth Observing System missions provided $1.6B in funding over 14 years to 781 investigators, 112 postdocs, 159 grad students for algorithm development, IDS investigations, cal/val investigations.
– Spitzer Space Telescope: Science operations provided $100M to 318 investigators over 6 years for science team and general observers.
– Cassini: Science operations provided $200M over 9 years to 125 investigators, 120 postdocs and grad students for science development and data analysis.
– Chandra: approximately $100M over 10 years to 2446 GO grants. 
• All funding is peer reviewed and selected through AOs, NRAs, Calls for Proposals (observing), or unsolicited but peer reviewed proposals.

[Slide 27]:  
Heading 1: Structure of the SMD Research Budget:
• Rationale: 
– Initiatives for new programs (e.g., Mars Exploration, Living With a Star, Beyond Einstein, etc.) are correctly described as complete programs including flight missions, the technology to enable them, the mission operations and data analysis to reap their benefits, and the basic research necessary to leverage their data into science advances.
– Isolating research into a single budget line gives the false impression to outside observers that research is separate from flight missions rather than being an integral part of the Nation benefiting from NASA’s flight missions.
– NASA’s science goals, objectives, and metrics are based on science results not mission milestones; it is appropriate to link the budget necessary to realize these goals, objectives, and metrics to the appropriate program.
– There are many examples of the value of this approach.

[Slide 28]:  
Heading 1: Fiscal Year 09 President’s Request by SMD Division:
Chart: President’s Request Fiscal Year 2007 - Fiscal Year 2013 for Ground Network/DSN, Earth Science, Astrophysics, Planetary Science, Heliophysics; 
for further assistance contact SARA@nasa.gov; 

[Slide 29]: 
Heading 1: Earth Science Program Content:
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Category; Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12, Fiscal Year 13:
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Category and for Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12, and Fiscal Year 13:
Row 2: Fiscal Year 09 President’s Budget; 1,198.5; ,1,280.3; 1,367.5; 1,350.7; 1,250.9; 1,264.4; 1,290.3,
Row 3: Earth Systematic Missions; 420.9; 530.1; 677.9; 661.5; 583.2; 563.6; 569.6,
Row 4: GPM; 23.8; 74.4; 125.8; 161.7; 129.8; 140.0; 113.3,
Row 5: Glory; 91.8; 35.2; 29.7; 9.1; 9.8; 2.7; (no entry for Fiscal Year 13),
Row 6: LDCM 45.9; 133.0; 139.4; 127.1; 96.0; 11.3; 2.7,
Row 7: NPP; 47.3; 70.0; 94.4; 52.2; 8.6; 8.9; 9.2,
Row 8: OSTM; 42.8; 27.5; 8.0; 7.8; 7.7; 7.3; 7.3,
Row 9: Decadal Survey Missions; 0.6; 33.0; 103.2; 116.2; 150.0; 250.2; 290.7,
Row 10: Other Missions and Data Analysis; 168.7; 157.0; 177.4; 187.5; 181.2; 143.1; 146.3,
Row 11: Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP); 167.9; 113.8; 88.6; 58.8; 37.4; 50.0; 54.9,
Row 12: OCO; 84.8; 35.6; 25.4; 9.0; 1.4; (no entries for Fiscal Year 12 and Fiscal Year 13),
Row 13: Aquarius; 62.4; 48.6; 33.8; 27.9; 5.1; 4.0; 2.9,
Row 14: Other Missions and Data Analysis; 20.6; 29.6; 29.4; 21.9; 30.8; 46.0; 52.0,
Row 15: Earth Science Multi-Mission Operations; 168.0; 167.8; 140.5; 159.1; 157.9; 166.5; 170.9,
Row 16: Earth Science Research; 349.5; 375.8; 380.6; 388.2; 390.6; 400.7; 409.3,
Row 17: Research and Analysis; 232.6; 243.3; 245.7; 254.0; 255.5; 260.3; 266.5,
Row 18: Computing and Management; 91.3; 103.1; 104.9; 104.7; 107.3; 110.1; 111.8,
Row 19: Airborne Science; 25.6; 26.0; 26.3; 25.7; 24.0; 26.4; 27.0,
Row 20: Near Earth Object Observations; (no entry for Fiscal Year 07); 3.4; 3.7; 3.8; 3.8; 3.9; 4.0,
End table.

[Slide 30]:  
Heading 1: Fiscal Year 09 Budget Proposal: Earth Science:
Graph: Budget Proposal, Earth Science Fiscal Year 2007-Fiscal Year 2013 for Technology; Applied Sciences; Research; Multi-Mission Operations; Earth System Science Pathfinder; Earth Systematic Missions; for further assistance contact  SARA@nasa.gov.

[Slide 31]: 
Heading 1: Structure of the SMD Earth Science Budget (Fiscal Year 09 President’s Request):
• Earth Science:
– Earth Systematic Missions:
• OSTM, GPM, Glory, LDCM, NPP,
• Decadal Survey Missions,
• Other Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– Earth System Science Pathfinder:
• OCO, Aquarius,
• Other Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– Earth Science Multi-mission Activities (mission enabling);
– Earth Science Research:
• Research and Analysis  (mission enabling),
• Computing and Management  (mission enabling),
• Airborne Science (mission enabling),
• Near Earth Object Observations [to Planetary in Fiscal Year 10];
– Applied Sciences; 
– Earth Science Technology:
• Advanced Technology Initiatives (mission enabling),
• Instrument Incubator  (mission enabling),
• Advanced Info Systems Technology (mission enabling).

[Slide 32]:  
Heading 1: Heliophysics Program Content:
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Category; Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12, Fiscal Year 13:
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Category and for Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12, and Fiscal Year 13:
Row 2: President’s Budget; 583.7; 590.9; 575.3; 598.9; 689.4; 741.2; 746.6,
Row 3: Living with a Star; 188.6; 217.1; 223.8; 212.0; 216.6; 232.8; 237.5,
Row 4: SDO;144.0; 90.0; 24.1; 14.8; 14.6; 15.5; 14.7,
Row 5: Geospace RBSP; 12.9; 77.7; 154.4; 154.7; 113.4; 57.9; 15.8,
Row 6: BARREL; (no entry for Fiscal Year 07); 0.8; 0.9; 3.9; 2.4; 2.0; 2.1,
Row 7: Solar Probe Lite; (no entry  for Fiscal Year 07); 13.9; (no entry for Fiscal Year 09); 3.4; 40.1; 74.2; 106.3,
Row 8: Other Missions and Data Analysis; 31.7; 34.7; 44.4; 35.2; 46.2; 83.2; 98.6,
Row 9: Solar Terrestrial Probes; 71.8; 105.9; 123.1; 137.5; 171.4; 172.6; 161.5,
Row 10: MMS; 31.1; 73.2; 94.6; 116.0; 149.3; 148.8; 137.5,
Row 11: Other Missions and Data Analysis; 40.7; 32.7; 28.5; 21.5; 22.0; 23.9; 24.1,
Row 12: Heliophysics Explorers; 74.4; 61.0; 41.3; 66.8; 125.1; 156.0; 160.1,
Row 13: IBEX; 45.1; 30.8; 9.56.9; 1.0; (no entries for Fiscal Year 12 and Fiscal Year 13),
Row 14: Future Missions; 1.5; 8.4; 16.5; 40.9; 105.8; 135.7; 139.2,
Row 15: Other Missions and Data Analysis; 27.8; 21.8; 15.3; 19.1; 18.4; 20.3; 20.9,
Row 16: Heliophysics Research; 208.0; 181.2; 184.8; 180.3; 175.3; 179.8; 187.5,
Row 17: Research and Analysis; 32.5; 30.9; 33.9; 35.9; 38.9; 39.6; 40.5,
Row 18: Sounding Rockets; 31.9; 30.2; 45.1; 47.3; 48.9; 49.7; 51.8,
Row 19: GSFC Building Support; 30.0; 20.0; 12.0; 12.0; (no entries for Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12, and Fiscal Year 13),
Row 20: Operating Missions / Data / Modeling; 113.6; 100.1; 93.8; 85.1; 87.6; 90.5; 95.2,
Row 21: New Millenium; 40.8; 25.8; 2.3; 2.2; 1.1; (no entries for Fiscal Year 12 and Fiscal Year 13),
End table.

[Slide 33]: 
Heading 1: Fiscal Year 09 Budget Proposal: Heliophysics: 
Graph: Heliophysics Budget Proposal Fiscal Year 07 – Fiscal Year 13, for New Millenium, Research, Explorers (includes future astrophysics Explorer missions), Solar Terrestrial Probes, Living With a Star; for further assistance contact SARA@nasa.gov.

[Slide 34]: 
Heading 1: Structure of the SMD Heliophysics Budget (Fiscal Year 09 President’s Request):
• Heliophysics:
– Living With a Star:
• SDO, RBSP, Solar Probe, BARREL,
• Other Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– Solar Terrestrial Probes:
• MMS,
• Other Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– Heliophysics Explorer:
• IBEX,
• Other Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– Heliophysics Research:
• Research and Analysis (mission enabling),
• Sounding Rockets (mission enabling),
• ACE, Operating Missions and Data Analysis,
• Research Range (mission enabling),
• GSFC Building;
– New Millennium
– Near Earth Networks // Deep Space Mission Systems.

[Slide 35]:  
Heading 1: Planetary Science Program Content:
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Category; Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12, Fiscal Year 13:
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Category and for Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12, and Fiscal Year 13:
Row 2: Fiscal Year 09 President’s Budget; 1,215.6; 1,247.5; 1,334.2; 1,410.1; 1,537.5; 1,570.0; 1,608.7,
Row 3: Discovery; 128.3; 153.0; 247.0; 258.3; 256.0; 326.1; 140.5,
Row 4: Discovery Future; 13.1; 52.1; 50.4; 49.1; 65.4; 239.8; 90.7,
Row 5: GRAIL; (no entry for Fiscal Year 07); 35.1; 122.4; 122.8; 113.1; 24.9; 5.7,
Row 6: M3; 6.6; 2.6; 2.7; 2.6; 0.5; (no entries for Fiscal Year 12 and Fiscal Year 13),
Row 7: Discovery Research; 11.9; 10.0; 18.8; 16.5; 15.7; 16.9; 17.3,
Row 8: Operating Missions and Data Analysis; 96.8; 53.2; 52.6; 67.3; 61.3; 44.6; 26.8,
Row 9: New Frontiers; 106.6; 132.2; 263.9; 250.3; 232.3; 227.7; 236.9,
Row 10: Juno; 87.8; 108.3; 245.0; 225.2; 168.0; 14.4; 17.8,
Row 11: Other Missions and Data Analysis; 18.8; 23.9; 19.0; 25.1; 64.3; 213.3; 219.1,
Row 12: Technology; 84.8; 84.8; 64.9; 69.3; 69.6; 71.3; 73.0,
Row 13: Planetary Science Research; 181.9; 242.1; 270.8; 315.8; 355.6; 373.2; 382.6,
Row 14: Research & Analysis; 111.7; 123.6; 142.4; 145.1; 150.4; 155.2; 159.0,
Row 15: Outer Planet Mission Studies; 4.2 (entry for Fiscal Year 08 only entry for this row),
Row 16: Lunar Science Research; (no entry for Fiscal Year 07); 22.7; 105.0; 122.0; 140.0; 150.0; 151.9,
Row 17: Operating Missions and Analysis: 20.4; 19.1; 19.5; 21.4; 22.2; 22.3; 22.7,
Row 18: Education and Directorate Management; 49.8; 72.4; 3.9; 27.4; 43.1; 45.7; 49.0,
Row 19: Mars Exploration; 634.9; 553.5; 386.5; 299.6; 344.5; 341.1; 413.8,
Row 20: MSL 2009; 416.8; 305.5; 223.3; 69.0; 54.6; 37.6; (no entry for Fiscal Year 13),
Row 21: Scout 2013; 5.3; 57.7; 6.7; 68.5; 152.5; 170.7; 121.8,
Row 22: JPL Building Support; 26.8; 13.4;  (no entries for Fiscal Year 09 through Fiscal Year 13),
Row 23: Mars R&A; 14.2; 27.4; 24.9; 25.9; 26.7; 27.1; 27.5,
Row 24: Operating Missions and Data Analysis; 171.8; 149.4; 131.6; 126.2; 90.5; 69.9; 69.3,
Row 25: Mars Next Decade; (no entries for Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, and Fiscal Year 09); 10.0; 20.2; 35.8; 195.2,
Row 26: Outer Planets; 79.0; 81.9; 101.1; 216.7; 279.4; 230.6; 362.0,
Row 27: Cassini; 79.0; 81.9; 81.8; 81.5; 75.3; 10.0; 10.0,
Row 28: Outer Planets Flagship; (no entries for Fiscal Year 07 and Fiscal Year 08); 19.3; 135.2; 204.1; 220.6; 352.0,
End table.

[Slide 36]: 
Heading 1: Fiscal Year 09 Budget Proposal: Planetary Science:
Graph: Planetary Science Budget Proposal Fiscal Year 07 – Fiscal Year 13, for Outer Planets, Mars Exploration, Research, Technology, New Frontiers, Discovery; for further assistance contact SARA@nasa.gov. 

[Slide 37]: 
Heading 1: Structure of the Planetary Science Budget (Fiscal Year 09 President’s Request):
• Planetary Science:
– Discovery:
• GRAIL, MMM, Future Missions,
• Discovery Research (mission enabling),
• Operating Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– New Frontiers:
• Juno,
• Other Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– Technology (mission enabling);
– Planetary Science Research:
• Research and Analysis (mission enabling),
• Lunar Science Research (mission enabling),
• Operating Missions and Analysis (mission enabling),
• Education and Directorate Management [for SMD];
– Mars Exploration:
• MSL, MAVEN, JPL Building,
• Mars Research and Analysis (mission enabling)
• Operating Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling),
– Outer Planets (mission enabling).

[Slide 38]:  
Heading 1: Astrophysics Program Content:
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Category; Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12, Fiscal Year 13:
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Category and for Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12, and Fiscal Year 13:
Row 2: Fiscal Year 09 President’s Budget; 1,365.0; 1,337.5; 1,164.5; 1,122.4; 1,057.1; 1,067.7; 1,116.0,
Row 3: Physics of the Cosmos; 201.3; 159.0; 157.0; 219.8; 249.0; 271.1; 326.0,
Row 4: GLAST; 88.9; 33.3; 23.2; 23.3; 24.1; 24.9; 24.9,
Row 5 Herschel; 11.7; 14.5; 27.2; 17.4; 17.6; 17.5; 16.4,
Row 6: Planck; 6.8; 8.0; 9.4; 8.9; 6.6; 6.5; 6.5,
Row 7: JDEM; (no entry for Fiscal Year 07); 3.7; 8.5; 63.0; 83.0; 109.0; 125.0,
Row 8: LISA; 6.5; 5.1; 5.7; 15.9; 18.7; 26.7; 35.0,
Row 9: Constellation-X; 8.3; 5.4; 8.3; 12.0; 16.8; 15.9; 42.0,
Row 10: Other Missions and Data Analysis; 79.1; 89.0; 74.9; 79.3; 82.1; 70.6; 76.2,
Row 11: Exoplanet Exploration; 184.7; 162.6; 48.1; 67.7; 68.4; 96.4; 126.2,
Row 12: SIM; 30.4; 54.1; (no entries for Fiscal Year 09 through Fiscal Year 13),
Row 13: Kepler; 121.8; 78.9; 25.2; 14.9; 13.9; 12.6; 8.8,
Row 14: Future Exoplanet Missions; 1.0; 1.1; 6.6; 41.7; 44.0; 72.0; 107.5,
Row 15: Other Missions and Data Analysis; 31.5; 28.5; 16.3; 11.2; 10.5; 11.7; 9.9,
Row 16: Cosmic Origins; 790.9; 807.3; 674.4; 571.1; 515.4; 485.6; 458.5,
Row 17: James Webb Space Telescope 398.6; 448.3; 371.9; 311.1; 265.1; 236.1; 194.9,
Row 18: Hubble Space Telescope;  279.5; 228.5; 154.9; 125.6; 114.7; 94.8; 93.9,
Row 19: SOFIA; 38.9; 62.1; 72.8; 72.8; 57.0; 58.8; 60.6,
Row 20: Spitzer; 73.8; 68.4; 71.7; 15.9; 10.3; 3.2; 3.3,
Row 21: Astrophysics Future Missions; (no entries for Fiscal Year 07 and Fiscal Year 08); 3.0; 45.8; 68.3; 92.7; 105.8,
Row 22: Astrophysics Explorer; 89.2; 106.4; 132.6; 93.3; 43.3; 11.7; 6.4,
Row 23: WISE; 54.1; 71.8; 65.2; 13.0; 5.2; 1.6; (no entry for Fiscal Year 13),
Row 24: NuSTAR; (no entries for Fiscal Year 07 and Fiscal Year 08); 43.5; 57.8; 31.0; 6.8; 6.4,
Row 25: Operating Explorers; 35.1; 34.6; 23.9; 22.5; 7.1; 3.2;  (no entry for Fiscal Year 13),
Row 26: Astrophysics Research; 98.9; 102.2; 152.3; 170.4; 181.0; 203.0; 198.9,
Row 27: Research and Analysis; 52.2; 50.3; 61.4; 65.4; 69.3; 72.6; 77.5,
Row 28: Balloons; 22.2; 22.8; 24.6; 26.7; 28.8; 32.4; 33.2,
Row 29: Other Missions and Data Analysis; 24.5; 29.1; 66.3; 78.4; 82.9; 97.9; 88.2;
End table.

[Slide 39]: 
Heading 1: Fiscal Year 09 Budget Proposal: Astrophysics:
Graph: Astrophysics Budget Proposal Fiscal Year 07 – Fiscal Year 13, for Research, Explorer (does not include future astrophysics explorer missions), Cosmic Origins, Exoplanet Exploration, Physics of the Cosmos; for further assistance contact SARA@nasa.gov. 

[Slide 40]: 
Heading 1: Structure of the SMD Astrophysics Budget (Fiscal Year 09 President’s Request):
• Astrophysics:
– Astrophysics Research:
• Research and Analysis (mission enabling),
• Balloon Project (mission enabling),
• Operating Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– Cosmic Origins: 
• Hubble, JWST, SOFIA, Spitzer,
• Astrophysics Future Missions (mission enabling);
– Physics of the Cosmos: 
• Fermi, JDEM, Herschel, Planck,
• Chandra, Other Missions, and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– Exoplanet Exploration: 
• SIM, Kepler,
• Other Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– Astrophysics Explorer: 
• WISE, NuSTAR,
• Operating Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling).

[Slide 41]:  
Heading 1: SMD Mission Enabling Budget:
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): “Standard” Research; Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, 
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for “Standard” Research category and for Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, and Fiscal Year 09:
Row 2: Earth Science,152; 153; 168,
Row 3: Heliophysics; 62; 61; 67,
Row 4: Planetary Science; 138; 192; 209,
Row 5: Astrophysics; 66; 72; 76,
Row 6: Column headings (left to right): Other Mission Enabling; Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, 
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Other Mission Enabling category and for Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, and Fiscal Year 09:
Row 7: Earth Science; 371; 359; 341,
Row 8: Heliophysics; 64; 66; 79,
Row 9: Planetary Science; 16; 16; 16,
Row 10: Astrophysics; 105; 107; 124,
Row 11: SMD Total: 972; 1,025; 1,080;
End table.
• Notes:
– “Standard Research”is the competed research programs (R&A, SR&T, etc.),
– Other Mission Enabling does not include mission science teams, pre-phase A 
technology, communications, management,
– “Standard Research”includes Earth science applications.

[Slide 42]:  
Heading 1: SMD “Subset” R&A Budgets (Fiscal Year 06-Fiscal Year 13):
Graph: SMD “Subset” R&A Budgets (Fiscal Year 06-Fiscal Year 13), for Earth Science, Planetary Science, Astrophysics, and Heliophysics: for or further assistance contact SARA@nasa.gov. 
NOTE: “Subset” R&A is a subset of R&A selected by the budget office based on the budget line’s name. It is not “standard” research.” 

[Slide 43]: 
Heading 1: SMD “Subset” R&A Budgets (Fiscal Year 06-Fiscal Year 13):
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Category; Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12, Fiscal Year 13,
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Category and for Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12, and Fiscal Year 13:
Row 2: Astrophysics; 61; 52; 56; 61; 65; 69; 73; 78,
Row 3: Earth Science; 198; 195; 208; 214; 222; 223; 227; 232,
Row 4: Heliophysics; 31; 32; 33; 34; 36; 39; 40; 41,
Row 5: Planetary Science; 151; 138; 181; 194; 192; 193; 199; 204,
Row 6: SMD Total; 441; 417; 478; 503; 515; 524; 538; 554;
End table.
NOTE: “Subset” R&A is a subset of R&A selected by the budget office based on the budget line’s name. It is less than “standard” research. It includes:
Earth Science R&A, Earth Science interdisciplinary science, Space Geodesy (satellite laser ranging), Heliophysics R&A, Planetary Science R&A, Mars R&A, Discovery R&A, Astrophysics R&A, Astrophysics SR&T (new in Fiscal Year 09).

[Slide 44]: 
Heading 1: History of Research Policy and Funding:
• The biggest changes come from Agency reorganization:
– Splitting of Code S, Code U, and Code Y,
– Elimination of Code R,
– Merging of Code S and Code Y,
– Full cost accounting,
– Reorganizing Code S and then SMD;
• Policy changes over the years include:
– External peer review (rather than internal review by NASA),
– Solicited proposals (rather than unsolicited proposals),
– Competitive selections (rather than case-by-case selections),
– Selecting investigations (rather than block funding),
– Full cost accounting (rather than base funding to Centers),
– Research institutes for planetary, astrobiology, lunar,
– Science institutes for Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer,
– Annual calls for one-third of program (rather than triennial calls for total),
– Four year awards (rather than three years),
– Grouping of disciplines into program elements.

[Slide 45]: 
Heading 1: SMD 95-06 Actuals and Fiscal Year 2007 Budget (Normalized to include ELV’s in all years, to remove JIMO, Nuclear Propulsion, Lunar Exploration, Cross Enterprise Technology and Deep Space Network; and adjust for full cost elements):
Graph provides values for Fiscal Year 1995 through Fiscal Year 2011, in millions of constant Fiscal Year 2006 dollars; for further assistance with this chart please contact SARA@nasa.gov.

[Slide 46]: 
Heading 1: SMD Fiscal Year 09 Budget Approximate Breakout:
Pie graph:
Components indicated for:
Research and Analysis;  Mission Science Teams and Data Analysis; Communications, Data Archives and Computing; Missions in Phase A-D; Mission Operations; Pre-Phase A, Technology, Management, and Other.
For further assistance, contact SARA@nasa.org.

[Slide 47]: 
Heading 1: OSSA Fiscal Year 90 Budget Approximate Breakout:
Pie graph:
Components indicated for:
Research and Analysis; Mission Science Teams and Data Analysis; Communications, Data Archives and Computing; Missions in Phase A-D; Mission Operations; Pre-Phase A, Technology, Management, and Other.
For further assistance, contact SARA@nasa.org.

[Slide 48]: 
Heading 1: OSSA Fiscal Year 90 and SMD Fiscal Year 09 Budget Approximate Breakouts:
Pie graph:
Comparative components indicated for:
Research and Analysis; Mission Science Teams and Data Analysis; Communications, Data Archives and Computing; Missions in Phase A-D; Mission Operations; Pre-Phase A, Technology, Management, and Other.
For further assistance, contact SARA@nasa.org.

[Slide 49]: 
Heading 1: Fiscal Year 08 Mission Enabling Budget:
Pie-graph:
Total: $1025M: Does not include science teams, or focused technology development.
Components indicated with relative percentage values:
Research, $302, 30%; (“Research” includes: • Basic research, • Research facilities, • High-end computing),
Technology, $266, 26% (“Technology” includes: • Technology development, • Suborbital payloads/missions, • Suborbital capabilities),
Data, $431, 42% (“Data” includes: • GO and Data Analysis Programs, • Data Systems, • Data Archives),
Applications, $25, 2% (“Applications” includes: • Earth science applications program).

[Slide 50]: 
Heading 1: Current R&A Snapshots:

[Slide 51]: 
Heading 1: Current R&A Snapshots:
Bar graph:
Distribution of award sizes for discrete ranges, from less than 20 thousand dollars to greater than two million dollars. Approximately 45 percent of awards are in the 200-500K range. For further assistance with this graph, contact SARA@nasa.gov.
Distribution of award sizes:
Snapshot from RAPTOR; Total award (cumulative over period of performance); Based on approximately 5000 SMD awards active in Fiscal Year 07 and Fiscal Year 08; Includes all types of awards (grants, Center funding, interagency transfers, etc.); Does not include astrophysics GO programs.

[Slide 52]: 
Heading 1: Current R&A Snapshots::
Pie-graph:
Self-categorization by all 2007 proposers (by dollar value of selected proposals):
(R) equals”research”, (T) equals “technology”, (D) equals “data”, (A) equals “applications”:
Components indicated with relative percentage values:
Theory (R) 14%; Data Analysis/Data Assimilation/Earth System modeling (D) 31%; Lab Investigations (R) 10%; Instrument development (T) 7%; Technology development (T) 14%; Suborbital rocket/balloon/airplane investigations (T) 7%; Ground-based & field research (including field campaigns) (R) 8% ; Earth Science applications (A) 5%; IT (D) 2%; Mission Concepts (R) 3%.

[Slide 53]: 
Heading 1: Current R&A Snapshots:
Pie-graph:
Self-categorization by all 2007 proposers (by number of proposals):
Components indicated with relative percentage values:
(R) equals”research”, (T) equals “technology”, (D) equals “data”, (A) equals “applications”:
Theory 18% (R); Data Analysis/Data Assimilation/Earth System modeling (D) 41%; Lab Investigations (R) 13%; Instrument development (T) 3%; Technology development (T) 4%; Suborbital rocket/balloon/airplane investigations (T) 5%; Ground-based & field research (including field campaigns) (R) 9% ; Earth Science applications (A) 3%; IT (D) 2%; Mission Concepts (R) 2%.

[Slide 54]: 
Heading 1: Current R&A Snapshots:
Categories for proposer self-categorization:
[R] equals “research”, [T] equals “technology”, [D] equals “data”, [A] equals “applications”:
1. Theory/Computer modeling [R]
2. Data Analysis/data assimilation/Earth System modeling (including Guest Observer Activities) [D]
3. Laboratory investigations (incl. sample analysis, physical simulations, and determination of physical parameters) [R]
4. Instrument development (incl. basic and advanced space and suborbital Instrumentation [T]
5. Technology development (incl. tech & subsystems for space andsuborbital) [T]
6. Technology development applicable to space nuclear/electric propulsion [T]
7. Suborbital rocket/balloon/airplane investigation [T]
8. Ground-based field research in support of NASA Missions (incl. astroobservations, field research, field campaigns) [R]
9. Earth System Science applications and decision support [A]
10. Development/application of information technology/data and information systems and tools [D]
11. Development of future mission concepts [R]

[Slide 55]: 
Heading 1: Current R&A Snapshots:
• Ratio of funding to NASA Centers vs. universities and other institutions:
– Based on 2007 actuals as reported through the NASA financial system,
– Includes 14 R&DA “projects” (5 Earth, 9 Space) with total funding of $486M selected as representative of total R&DA funding.
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Category, SMD, Earth, Space,
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Category and for SMD, Earth, and Space:
Row 2: NASA Centers (including JPL); 33%; 46%; 23%,
Row 3: Other Government Agencies (Only NASA provides funds to other agency labs and FFRDCs; NSF, DOE, USGS, NOAA, etc. do not.); 7%; 6%; 7%,
Row 4: Universities, etc.; 60%; 48%; 69%,
Row 5: Fraction of total SMD funding; 100%; 43%; 57%,
Table end.

[Slide 56]:  
Heading 1: Current R&A Snapshots:
• Investigator turnover rates: 
– Based on a canvass of SMD program officers,
– Includes 30 program elements with selections in 2007 or 2008 that resulted in the selection of 755 proposals,
– Definition of turnover rate used is the fraction of newly selected PIs who are not currently the PI of an existing award (terminating or continuing) in that same program element.
Table:
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Category, Programs, Sample Size, Turnover Rate,
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Category and for Programs, Sample Size, and Turnover Rate:
Row 2: Earth Science; 13; 292; 61%,
Row 3: Heliophysics; 7; 182; 74%,
Row 4: Planetary Science; 8; 187; 52%,
Row 5: Astrophysics [excludes GO programs – Turnover rate for small GO programs is approximately 47% (4 // 234)]; 3; 101; 67%,
Row 6: SMD Total; 31; 762; 63%;
End table.
Range of turnover rates among program elements is 19% to 100%

[Slide 57]: 
Heading 1: Current R&A Snapshots:
• Graduation data about how many or how often R&A investigators become flight mission PIs:
– As far as we can tell, all flight mission PIs have been R&A investigators,
– But there are very few flight mission PIs and a lot of R&A investigators, so the graduation rate is very small,
– R&A investigators: 1000 new selections each year, turnover rate is 69%, so over a 10 year period there are up to 6900 R&A investigators,
– Flight mission PIs: approximately 4 missions per year, approximately 5 mission/instrument PIs per mission, so over a 10 year period there are approximately 200 flight mission PIs,
– Therefore graduation rate is approximately 3%.

[Slide 58]: 
Heading 1:Earth Science:
• Research
• Airborne Science
• Data Systems
• Modeling
• High-End Computing
• Technology Development

[Slide 59]: 
Heading 1: Structure of the SMD Research Budget (Fiscal Year 09 President’s Request):
• Earth Science:
– Earth Systematic Missions: 
• OSTM, GPM, Glory, LDCM, NPP,
• Decadal Survey Missions,
• Other Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– Earth System Science Pathfinder: 
• OCO, Aquarius,
• Other Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– Earth Science Multi-mission Activities (mission enabling),
– Earth Science Research:
• Research and Analysis (mission enabling),
• Computing and Management (mission enabling),
• Airborne Science (mission enabling),
• Near Earth Object Observations [to Planetary in Fiscal Year 10];
– Applied Sciences, 
– Earth Science Technology: 
• Advanced Technology Initiatives (mission enabling),
• Instrument Incubator (mission enabling),
• Advanced Info Systems Technology (mission enabling).

[Slide 60]: 
Heading 1: Earth Science Division Focus Areas:
Atmospheric Composition; Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems; Climate Variability and Change; Weather; Water and Energy Cycle; Earth Surface and Interior; corresponding map imaging provided, for further description contact SARA@nasa.gov.

[Slide 61]: 
Heading 1: Research Program Objectives: 
• Advance knowledge of the Earth as a system through development and analyses of remotely sensed data, in situ and airborne measurements, and modeling
• Expand and demonstrate utility of NASA and related spaceborne mission data through measurement-focused investigations and development of advanced products 
• “Mainstream”spaceborne Earth Observation products to encourage broad use by non-remote sensing experts
• Identify important yet tractable future problems and missions given expert knowledge of both science and technology state-of-the-art
• Identify key future areas of technology development to address presently intractable problems
• Provide a community of researchers that can support transition of new knowledge to applications (Applied Sciences) and prediction/operations (inter-agency). 

[Slide 62]: 
Heading 1: Research Program Structure: 
• Research and Analysis – mainly individual investigator competed activities, organized predominantly around scientific disciplines [799] (Task Count in RAPTOR approximates number of investigations)
• Mission Science Teams – support for investigators affiliated with individual satellite missions or groups of closely related missions [392] (Task Count in RAPTOR approximates number of investigations)
• Interdisciplinary Science – includes calibration/validation for space-based measurements and interdisciplinary science, as well as EOSproject science office [219] (Task Count in RAPTOR approximates number of investigations)
• Airborne Science – includes operation of aircraft platforms and investments to support bringing new capability into NASA airborne science programs
• High End Computing – includes investment in supercomputing capability (especially at GSFC) to support community and infrastructure needed for its use
• Education and Public Outreach – includes graduate student fellowships, New Investigator Program, and public outreach activities (e.g., GLOBE).

[Slide 63]: 
Heading 1: Research Program Content:
• R&A includes several basic areas:
– Laboratory investigations – especially spectroscopy, kinetics, and photochemistry,
– Surface-based measurement networks,
– Airborne and balloon-based measurements, including field campaigns,
– Integrated analysis of satellite data, including analysis of multiple data sets, 
– Process model development and testing,
– Regional/global model development, testing, and application.

[Slide 64]: 
Heading 1: R&A “Disciplines” and Science Focus Areas: 
Heading Rows 1 and 2: Column headings (left to right): R&A Discipline; Science Focus Area with sub-headings: Atmospheric Composition, Climate Variability & Change, Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems, Global Water and Energy Cycle, Weather, Earth Surface & Interior;
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for R&A Discipline  and for indicated Science Focus Areas (Atmospheric Composition, Climate Variability & Change, Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems, Global Water and Energy Cycle, Weather; Earth Surface & Interior; indicated Science Focus Areas are designated P for Primary and S for Secondary; non-designated areas are not vocalized):
Row 3: Upper Atmosphere Research; Atmospheric Composition (Primary); Climate Variability & Change (Secondary),
Row 4: Tropospheric Chemistry; Atmospheric Composition (Primary); Climate Varibaility & Change (Secondary); Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems (Secondary); Global Water and Energy Cycle (Secondary); Weather (Secondary),
Row 5: Radiation Sciences; Atmospheric Composition (Primary); Climate Variability & Change (Secondary); Global Water and Energy Cycle (Secondary); Weather (Secondary),
Row 6: Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling & Analysis; Atmospheric Composition (Primary); Climate Variability & Change (Secondary); Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems (Secondary); Global Water and Energy Cycle (Secondary),
Row 8: Modeling and Analysis; Atmospheric Composition (Secondary); Climate Variability & Change (Primary); Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems (Secondary); Global Water and Energy Cycle (Secondary); Weather (Secondary),
Row 9: Physical Oceanography; Climate Variability & Change (Primary); Global Water and Energy Cycle (Secondary); Weather (Secondary),
Row 10: Cryospheric Science; Climate Variability & Change (Primary); Global Water & Energy Cycle (Secondary); Weather (Secondary); Earth Surface & Interior (Secondary),
Row 11: Terrestrial Ecology; Atmospheric Composition (Secondary); Climate Variability & Change (Secondary); Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems (Primary); Global Water and Energy Cycle (Secondary),
Row 12: Land Cover Land Use Change; Atmospheric Composition (Secondary); Climate Variability & Change (Secondary); Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems (Primary); Global Water and Energy Cycle (Secondary); Weather (Secondary); Earth Surface & Interior (Secondary),
Row 13: Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry; Atmospheric Composition (Secondary); Climate Variability & Change (Secondary); Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems (Primary); Global Water and Energy Cycle (Secondary),
Row 14: Biodiversity (Nascent Program); Climate Variability & Change (Secondary); Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems (Primary),
Row 15: Terrestrial Hydrology; Climate Variability & Change (Secondary); Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems (Secondary); Global Water and Energy Cycle (Primary); Weather (Secondary); Earth Surface & Interior (Secondary),
Row 16: Atmospheric Dynamics; Atmospheric Composition (Secondary); Climate Variability & Change (Secondary); Global Water and Energy Cycle (Primary); Weather (Secondary),
Row 17: Research-Operations Transition Activities; Atmospheric Composition (Secondary); Climate Variability & Change (Secondary); Weather (Primary),
Row 18: Space Geodesy; Climate Variability & Change (Secondary); Global Water and Energy Cycle (Secondary); Earth Surface & Interior (Primary),
Row 19: Earth’s Planetary Interior; Earth Surface & Interior (Primary),
Row 20: Geohazards; Atmospheric Composition (Secondary); Climate Variability & Change (Secondary); Global Water and Energy Cycle (Secondary); Earth Surface & Interior (Primary);
End table.

[Slide 65]: 
Heading 1: Example of Scientific Integration:
• Issue: Documenting changes in global sea level, being able to understand those changes, and predict their future evolution,
• Contributing Program Elements:
– R&A Disciplines:
• Physical Oceanography,
• Terrestrial Hydrology,
• Cryospheric Science,
• Space Geodesy,
• Modeling and Analysis;
– Instrument Teams:
• Jason (global sea level),
• ICESat (ice sheet thickness),
• GRACE (ice mass, stored water),
• ASTER (glacier extent),
• AMSR-E (SST/upper ocean heat content);
– Airborne Science:
• Lidar flights for ice thickness studies;
– Interdisciplinary Science. 

[Slide 66]: 
Heading 1: Earth Science Research – Fiscal Year 08-Fiscal Year 13:
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Category; Fiscal Year 08 (in $M), Fiscal Year 09 (in $M), Fiscal Year 10 (in $M), Fiscal Year 11 (in $M), Fiscal Year 12 (in $M), Fiscal Year 13 (in $M),
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Category and for Fiscal Year 07 through Fiscal Year 13 in $M:
Row 2: Total Earth Science Competed Research; 411.9; 400.0; 399.8; 404.4; 415.3; 421.8,
Row 3: Core Earth Science Research (Source: Fiscal Year 2009 President’s Budget Submit for Fiscal Year 09-Fiscal Year 13 and latest approved Operating Plan for Fiscal Year 08); 304.2; 320.8; 328.9; 329.6; 338.7; 346.7,
Row 4: Research and Analysis; 125.5; 136.9; 144.4; 146.4; 149.8; 153.5,
Row 5: EOS Science; 57.4; 62.3; 62.6; 61.5; 62.3; 63.7,
Row 6: HECC; 38.9; 41.9; 42.8; 43.8; 44.8; 45.9,
Row 7: Airborne Science; 33.1; 26.3; 25.7; 24.0; 26.4; 27.0,
Row 8: Scientific Computing; 18.5; 18.9; 18.4; 18.6; 19.4; 19.9,
Row 9: Space Geodesy/SLR; 11.3; 14.4; 14.5; 14.6; 15.0; 15.1,
Row 10: Global Modeling & Assimilation Office; 10.3; 10.1; 10.4; 10.6; 11.3; 11.6,
Row 11: Near Earth Object Observations; 3.3; 3.7; 3.8; 3.8; 3.9; 4.0,
Row 12: Ozone Trends Science; 2.9; 3.2; 3.2; 3.1; 2.4; 2.5,
Row 13: Carbon Cycle Science; 2.2; 2.3; 2.3; 2.3; 2.4; 2.5,
Row 14: Mission Science Guest Investigator; 0.8; 0.8; 0.8; 0.9; 1.0; 1.0,
Row 15: Earth Science Competed Science associated with Operating Missions (Source: Fiscal Year 2009 President’s Budget Submit for Fiscal Year 09-Fiscal Year 13 and latest approved Operating Plan for Fiscal Year 08); 91.8; 63.5; 55.1; 58.8; 60.5; 58.6,
Row 16: AQUA; 18.4; 11.5; 6.8; 8.0; 8.2; 8.4,
Row 17: AURA; 22.9; 7.2; 7.2; 7.3; 7.5; 7.7,
Row 18: CALIPSO; 3.1; 2.8; 2.9; 2.9; 3.0; 3.1,
Row 19: CloudSat; 2.9; 2.9; 3.0; 3.1; 3.1; 3.2,
Row 20: GRACE; 2.4; 3.0; 3.0;  3.1; 3.2; 3.2,
Row 21: AQUARIUS; (no entry for Fiscal Year 08); (no entry for Fiscal Year 09); 1.0; 2.5; 2.5; 2.5,
Row 22: OCO; (no entry for Fiscal Year 08); 1.0; 2.5; 2.5; 2.5; 2.5,
Row 23: ICESAT I; 4.6; 2.5; 2.5; 2.5; 2.5; (no entry for Fiscal Year 13),
Row 24: OSTST; (no entry for Fiscal Year 08); 2.5; 1.2; 1.1; 1.1; 0.7,
Row 25: OVWST; 6.5; 4.7; 4.8; 4.7; 4.8; 4.8,
Row 26: Precipitation Science Team; 11.9; 8.3; 7.5; 7.6; 7.7; 7.9,
Row 27: NPP; (no entry for Fiscal Year 08); 5.8; 5.9; 5.6; 6.3; 6.3,
Row 28: TERRA; 19.1; 11.3; 6.8; 7.9; 8.1; 8.3,
Row 29: Other Research Related; 15.9; 15.6; 15.8; 16.0; 16.1; 16.5,
Row 30: Fellowships and New Investigators; 8.0; 8.2; 8.2; 8.3; 8.4; 8.6,
Row 31: Earth Science Education & Outreach Activities; 7.9; 7.5; 7.6; 7.6; 7.7; 7.9;
End table.

[Slide 67]: 
Heading 1: R&A Budget Breakdown: 
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Focus Area, Program, Fiscal Year 09 Funding (in $M),
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Focus Area, Program, and Fiscal Year 09 Funding (in $M):
Row 2: Carbon Cycle/Eco.; Terrestrial Ecology; 14.0,
Row 3: Carbon Cycle/Eco.; Ocean Bio. & Biogeochem.; 8.2,
Row 4: Carbon Cycle/Eco; Land Cover/Land Use Change; 7.6,
Row 5: Carbon Cycle/Eco.; Biodiversity; 0.9,
Row 6: Climate Var. Change; Modeling, Analysis, & Prediction; 9.7,
Row 7: Climate Var. Change; Phys. Oceanography; 9.3,
Row 8: Climate Var. Change; Cryospheric Science; 6.0,
Row 9: Atmos. Comp.; Upper Atmosphere Research; 12.3,
Row 10: Atmos. Comp.; Trop. Chemistry; 7.8,
Row 11: Atmos. Comp.; Atmosphere Chemistry Modeling & Analysis; 6.7,
Row 12: Atmos. Comp.; Radiation Science; 7.3,
Row 13: GWEC; Terrestrial Hydrology; 10.7,
Row 14: GWEC; Atmospheric Dynamics; 4.6,
Row 15: Weather; Res. Ops. Trans.; 2.6,
Row 16: Earth Surface & Interior; Earth Surface & Interior; 10.3,
Row 17: N/A; X-Cutting and Mgmt. Directed; 18.9,
Row 18: Total; (no separate Program entry); 136.9;
End table.

[Slide 68]: 
Heading 1: Competed Mission Science Teams:
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Mission(s), Last Competed, Fiscal Year 09 Funding (in $M),
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Mission(s), Last Competed, and Fiscal Year 09 Funding (in $M):
Row 2: Terra; Fiscal Year 06; 11.3,
Row 3: Aqua; Fiscal Year 06; 11.5,
Row 4: Aura; Fiscal Year 07; 7.2,
Row 5: ICESat; Fiscal Year 05; 2.5,
Row 6: OSTST; Fiscal Year 07; 2.5,
Row 7: OVWST; Fiscal Year 05; 4.7,
Row 8: Precipitation; Fiscal Year 06; 8.3,
Row 9: NPP; Fiscal Year 06; 5.8,
Row 10: GRACE; Fiscal Year 06; 3.0,
Row 11: GNSS; Fiscal Year 06; 1.0,
Row 12: Cloudsat; Fiscal Year 05; 2.9,
Row 13: CALIPSO; Fiscal Year 05; 2.8,
Row 14: Glory (SAG); Fiscal Year 07; 0.5,
Row 15: TOTAL; (no separate Last Competed entry); 64.0;
End table.

[Slide 69]: 
Heading 1: ESD Research Solicitation History:
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Area, Sub-Area, Roses 05, Roses 06, Roses 07, Roses 08,
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order, heads are repeated for each row table cell entry indicated, blank table cells are not vocalized:
Row 2: Area, Research; Sub-Area, Atmospheric Composition; Roses 05, Atmospheric Composition (Satellite Data Analysis, Kinetics); Roses 06, Atmospheric Composition: TC-4 (FC); Ground-Networks; Modeling and Analysis; Roses 07, Atmospheric Composition: Aura Science Team; Glory Science Advisory Group; ARCTAS (FC); Roses 08, Atmospheric Composition: Laboratory Research; Surface, Balloon, and Airborne Observations,
Row 3: Sub-Area, Climate Variability and Change; Roses 05, ICESat/Cryosat; OVWST; Roses 06, International Polar Year; Roses 07, Physical Oceanography, OSTST; Cryospheric Science; Roses 08, Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction; Physical Oceanography; Ocean Salinity Science Team,
Row 4: Sub-Area, Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems; Roses 05, LBA (FC); NACP; Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry; Terrestrial Ecology and Biodiversity; Roses 06, Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry; Roses 07, LCLUC, Carbon Cycle Science; Terrestrial Ecology; Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry; Roses 08, Terrestrial Ecology, LCLUC, Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry, Biodiversity,
Row 5: Sub-Area, Global Water and Energy Cycle; Roses 05, LCLUC; Cloudsat/CALIPSO; Terrestrial Hydrology; NEWS; Roses 06, Precipitation Science; Roses 07, NEWS; Terrestrial Hydrology; Roses 08, NEWS/ Water Quality,
Row 6: Sub-Area, Weather; Roses 05, NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (FC); Roses 07, Wind Lidar Science; Roses 08, Hurricane Science Research,
Row 7: Sub-Area, Earth Surface and Interior; Roses 05, Earth Surface and Interior; Roses 06, GRACE Science Team; Roses 07, Earth Surface and Interior; EarthScope: The InSAR and Geodetic Imaging Component (new); Roses 08, Advanced Concepts in Space Geodesy,
Row 8: Sub-Area, Interdisciplinary, Cross-Cutting; Roses 05, Remote Sensing Science; Roses 06, Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science; Earth System Science Research; GNSS Remote Sensing Science Team; Roses 07, Airborne Instrument Technology Transition (new); Space Archaeology (new); Accelerating Operational Use of Research Data (new),
Row 9: Area, Applied Sciences; Roses 05, Decision Support; Roses 07, Decision Support through Earth Science Research Results; Roses 08, Decision Support Through Earth Science Research Results; Earth Science Applications,
Row 10: Area,  Data; Roses 05, ACCESS; Roses 06, ACCESS; MEaSUREs; Roses 07, ACCESS,
Row 11: Area, Technology; Roses 05, ACT, AIST; Roses 07, IIP; Roses 08, AIST, ACT,
Row 12: Area, E/PO; Roses 05, New Investigator Program in Earth Science; Roses 06, International Polar Year EPO; Roses 07, New Investigator Program in Earth Science;
End table.

[Slide 70]: 
Heading 1: Proposal History: ROSES 07:
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Program Category, Element, Number of Proposals Submitted,
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Program Category, Element, and Number of Proposals Submitted:
Row 2: R&A/Carbon Cycle; Land Cover/Land Use Change; 77
Row 3: R&A/Carbon Cycle; Carbon Cycle Science; 113,
Row 4:  R&A/Carbon Cycle; Terrestrial Ecology; 59,
Row 5: R&A/Carbon Cycle; Ocean Bio & Biogeochem; 8,
Row 6: R&A/Climate Variation & Change; Cryospheric Science; 53,
Row 7: R&A/Global Water & Energy Cycle; NASA Energy & Water Cycle; 47,
Row 8: R&A/Global Water & Energy Cycle; Terrestrial Hydrology; 49,
Row 9: MST/Atmos Comp; Aura Science Team; 76,
Row 10: MST/Atmos Comp; Glory Sci. Adv. Group; 12,
Row 11: R&A/Atmos Comp; ARCTAS; 73,
Row 12: R&A/Weather; Wind Lidar Science; 13,
Row 13: R&A/X-Cutting; Accel. Op. Use Res. Data (New R&A Program Element in ROSES 07); 16,
Row 14: R&A/Earth Surface & Interior; Earth Surface & Interior; 60,
Row 15: R&A/Earth Surface & Interior; Geodetic Imaging; 18,
Row 16: R&A/X-Cutting; Airborne Instr. Tech. Trans. (New R&A Program Element in ROSES 07); 36,
Row 17: R&A/X-Cutting; Space Archaeology (New R&A Program Element in ROSES 07); 16,
Row 18: Applied Science; Decision Support; 125,
Row 19: Education & Public Outreach; New Investigator Program; 78,
Row 20: Data; ACCESS; 31,
Row 21: Technology; Institution Incubator Program; 71,
Row 22: TOTAL; (no separate Element entry); 1125;
End table.

[Slide 71]: 
Heading 1: Proposal History: ROSES 08:
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Program Category, Element, Number of Proposals Submitted,
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Program Category, Element, and Number of Proposals Submitted:
Row 2: R&A/Carbon Cycle; Land Cover/Land Use Change; 63,
Row 3: R&A/Carbon Cycle; Terrestrial Ecology; 77,
Row 4: R&A/Carbon Cycle; Ocean Bio & Biogeochem; 50,
Row 5: R&A/Carbon Cycle; Biodiversity (New R&A Program Element in ROSES 08); 54,
Row 6: R&A/Climate Variation & Change; Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction; 152,
Row 7: R&A/Climate Variation & Change; Physical Oceanography; 26,
Row 8: R&A/Global Water & Energy Cycle; Rem. Sensing Water Qual.; 16,
Row 9: R&A/Atmos Comp; Atmos. Comp. Lab Research; 49,
Row 10: R&A/Atmos Comp; Atmos. Comp. Field Observation; 55,
Row 11: R&A/Weather; Hurricane Science Research; 52,
Row 12: Applied Science; Decision Support; 148,
Row 13: Applied Science; Feasibility Studies; 79,
Row 14: Applied Science; Gulf of Mexico; 69,
Row 15: Technology; Advanced Component Technology; 87,
Row 16: Technology; Advanced Information Systems Technology; 103,
Row 17: Mission Science Team; ICESat I I  Science Def. Team; 39,
Row 18: Mission Science Team; SMAP Science Def. Team; 44,
Row 19: Total; (no separate Element entry); 1163;
End table.

[Slide 72]: 
Heading 1: Earth Science ROSES Statistics:
• ROSES generates significant “proposal traffic”:
– 2006: 1048 proposals from 13 elements,
– 2007: 1125 proposals from 22 elements,
– 2008: 1163 proposals from 17 elements;
• Overall success rate is changing slowly:
– 2006: 37%, 2007: 34%, 2008: 31% (2008 is incomplete);
• Success rates between elements can vary enormously
• Have made limited use of “two-step”approach to reduce number of full proposals.

[Slide 73]:  
Heading 1: Fiscal Year 08 R&A Field Program Highlights: 
• GasEx-Ongoing (late Feb - early April) Interagency field program aboard NOAA ship Ron Brown quantifying atmosphere-ocean gas exchange processes in poorly sampled Southern Ocean, providing unique cal/val opportunity for NASA and other satellites, as well as input into carbon cycle models.
• ARCTAS - multi-aircraft (DC-8, P-3, B-200), multi-deployment (spring, summer) campaign studying transport of trace gases and particulate matter to Arctic and their chemical and radiative impacts (including role of Boreal fires). Supports IPY.
• AMISA - DC-8 flying in Arctic to study radiative issues associated with Arctic sea ice and overlying atmosphere; coordinated with Swedish ship-based measurements. Supports IPY.
• NOVICE - WB-57 experiment this summer to provide test platform for numerous instruments (ARC, LaRC, NOAA/ESRL, Harvard) mainly in atmospheric composition focus area.

[Slide 74]:  
Heading 1: Airborne Science Program:
Heading 2: Program Objectives: 
Heading 3: Satellite Calibration and Validation: 
Provide best value methods to perform the cal/val requirements for Earth,
Observing System satellites.
Heading 3: New Sensor Development: 
Provide best value methods to reduce risk for new sensor concepts and algorithm development prior to committing sensors to spacecraft. 
Heading 3: Process Studies: 
Facilitate best value to acquire high spatial/temporal resolution focused measurements that are required to understand small atmospheric and surface structures which generate powerful Earth system effects. 
Heading 3: Next Generation NASA Scientist and Engineer Development:
Facilitate the development of our future NASA workforce by maturing our PI’s, Project Scientist, Instrument Engineers, science management. Airborne programs typically last 12 to 24 months and as compared to satellite going years to decades on one project.
Illustration:
Tier Zero: Surface and Subsurface Platforms. Oceans sampled with buoys and AXBTs (0 to 2,000 meters depth),
Tier One, 20 kilometers orbit (proposed): Air Platforms, Globe sampled every 72 hours with 10 vehicles (proposed),
Tier Two, 850 kilometers orbit: Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES), Globe covered every 6 hours  with 3 satellites,
Tier Three, 35,800 kilometers orbit: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES), Globe covered every hour with 5 satellites.

[Slide 75]: 
Heading 1: Airborne Science Program Operations: 
Heading 3: Core Airborne Systems: Subsidized User fee:
ER-2, WB-57, DC-8, P-3, G-Three,
Heading 3: New Technology Airborne Systems: Subsidized to No User fee:
Global Hawk, Sierra, Over the Horizon Communications, Payload Portability between aircraft and centers – standards,
Heading 3: Catalog Airborne Systems: Full cost User fee: 
B-200 (LaRC, DOE, etc), S-3 (GRC), Learjet (GRC), Twin Otter, Caravan, Aerosonde, etc.,
Heading 3: Airborne Sensor Facility, Mission/Campaign Management:
Heading 2: Over 50 aircraft available to the Program.
Airborne systems illustrated by photographs.
NASA Airborne Science Program logo displayed.

[Slide 76]: 
Heading 1: 2005-2008 Airborne Campaigns:
Map of 2005-2008 Airborne Campaigns: Sites indicated as follows (for further assistance contact SARA@nasa.gov:
Sal Island, Cape Verde; San Jose, Costa Rica; Vera Cruz, Mexico; Honolulu, Hawaii; Anchorage, Alaska; Thule, Greenland; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Warner Robins, Georgia; Edwards, California; Mildenhall, England; Yellowknife, Canada; Cold Lake, Canada; Chicopee, Massachusetts; Houston, Texas; Punta Arenas, Chile; Kiruna, Sweden; Ponca City, Oklahoma; Fairbanks, Alaska; Papeete, Tahiti.
NASA Airborne Science Program logo displayed.

[Slide 77]:  
Heading 1: Airborne Science Program:
Organization Chart (top-down, left-right order):
Heading 3: Airborne Science Program: 
Andrew Roberts; Deputy,  Randy Albertson; Functions: Portfolio Management; Grants Studies and Report Requirements; Education and Outreach; Facilities, Testbeds and Operations.
Airborne Science Program components: 
Heading 4: LaRC – Catalog Aircraft B-200; 
Heading 4: GRC – Catalog Aircraft S-3, Lear, Twin Otter, T-34;
Four program areas:
Heading 5: ARC ASP Program: 
Steve Hipskind; Deputy, Matt Fladeland; Functions: Studies and Reports; Earth Science Project Office; Airborne Sensor Development Lab; Science Mission Management; Sierra.
Heading 5: DFRC ASP Program: 
Bob Curry; Deputy, Jacques Vachon; Functions: DC-8/NSERC, ER-2, Ikhana, Global Hawk, G-Three, DAOF.
Heading 5: WFF ASP Program: 
George Postell; Deputy, Anthony Guillory; Functions: P-3; Catalog management; small UAV;  Reports; Budget Management support.
Heading 5: JSC ASP Program:
Ken Cockrell; Deputy, Kevein Lesenski; Functions: WB-57, Mission Support Programs.
NASA Airborne Science Program logo displayed.

[Slide 78]:  
Heading 1: Airborne Science 2008 Budget: 
Airborne Science 2008 Budget pie chart (for further assistance, contact SARA@nasa.gov):
Components: NAOF Palmdale, Catalog, Airborne Sensor Technology Lab, Science Management, Education & Outreach, New Technology, Demonstrations, Core Fleet (the largest portion).
NASA Airborne Science Program logo displayed.

[Slide 79]: 
Heading 1: Airborne Science Budget:
Airborne Science:
Fiscal Year 06 equals 29.1; Fiscal Year 07 equals 25.6; Fiscal Year 08 equals 33.1; Fiscal Year 09 equals 26.3; Fiscal Year 10 equals 25.7; Fiscal Year 11 equals 24.0; Fiscal Year 12 equals 26.4; Fiscal Year 13 equals 27.0.
In addition there is about $8M per year in user fees and mission peculiar costs.
NASA Airborne Science Program logo displayed.

[Slide 80]: 
Heading 1: Earth Science Data Systems (Core and Community): 
Map of Earth Science Data System (Core and Comunity) sites in United States (for further assistance contact SARA@nasa.gov):
EOSDIS Data Centers:
NSIDC DAAC (Colorado); ASF DAAC (Alaska); PO. DAAC (California); LP DAAC (South Dakota); New England and Mid-Atlantic: CDDIS; SEDAC; GES DISC; LAADS; ASDC; Tennesse: ORNL DAAC.
Related Data Providers: GHRC (Alabama),
Measurement-based Systems: OPGB, PPS (Mid-Atlantic),
Science Investigator-led Processing Systems (SIPSs): JPL: MLS, TES (California); San Diego: ACRIM (California); NCAR, University of Colorado: HIRDLS, MOPITT, SORCE (Colorado); GHRC: AMSR-E, LIS (Alabama); LaRC: Ceres, SAGE Three (Virginia); GSFC: GLAS, MODIS, OMI, OCDPS (Mid-Atlantic).

[Slide 81]:  
Heading 1: Earth Science Data Systems Programs:
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Core, Community,
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Core and for Community:
Row 2: Projects Subject to Programmatic Review; Projects Competitively Selected,
Row 3: Substantive NASA Oversight; ‘Light Touch’ Oversight with Significant Community Involvement,
Row 4: Tight Integration of Data System Tools, Services and Functions; Community-based Tools and Services Loosely-Coupled,
Row 5: Employ Well Established Information Technologies; Employ ‘Edgy’or Emerging Technologies;
End table.

[Slide 82]: 
Heading 1: EOSDIS Key Metrics: 
Table 1: 
EOSDIS Metrics (October 1, 2006 to September 30, 2007):
Unique Data Products: greater than 2700,
Distinct Users at Data Centers: approximately 3.0M,
Daily Archive Growth: 3.2 TB/day,
Total Archive Volume: 4.9 PB,
End User Distribution Products: greater than 100M,
End User Daily Distribution Volume: 4.2 TB/day,
Table 2:
ESDIS Project Supports:
Science System Elements: Data Centers 11 and SIPS 14;
Interfaces: Interface Control Documents, 41;
Partnerships: US 8 and International 18,
Missions: Science Data Processing: 7, Archiving and Distribution 51; and Instruments Supported 75,
End table.
Cost: $112M/year to $121M/year.
Products Delivered bar graph for fiscal years 1996 through 2008 (approximately 160 million for Fiscal Year 2008); for further assistance contact SARA@nasa.gov,
User Accesses bar graph for fiscal years 1996 through 2007 (approximately 9,500,0000 for Fiscal Year 2007); for further assistance contact SARA@nasa.gov.

[Slide 83]:  
Heading 1: Data-Oriented Competitive Research Programs:
• MEaSUREs: Making Earth System data records for Use:
– Provide Earth science data products and services driven by NASA’s Earth science goals and contributing to advancing Earth system “missions to measurements” concept.
– Bring together expertise in multiple instrument characterization and calibration, data processing, science-based product generation and distribution, science tools, and interactive relationships with the broader science community.
– Initial MEaSUREs solicitation focused on the creation of Earth System Data Records (ESDRs), including Climate Data Records. 29 of 86 proposals were selected in October, 2007 (approximately $15/year).
• ACCESS: Advancing Collaborative Connections: 
– Enhance and improve existing components of the distributed and heterogeneous data and information systems infrastructure that support NASA’s Earth science research goals:
• …increase the interconnectedness and reuse of key information technology software and services in use across Earth system science investigations.
• …enable the freer movement of data and information within a distributed environment of providers and users, and the exploitation of needed tools and services to aid in improvements of Earth science data access anddata usability. 
–  A 2007 call resulted in 30 proposals of which 10 were selected for funding (approximately $3.5M/year).

[Slide 84]: 
Heading 1: NASA Earth System Model
Heading 2: Development/Improvement for Forecast/Prediction:
NASA Earth System Model flow chart:
1) Climate Weather-to-Climate Models; 2) Prediction Forecast; 3) Optimization; 
Feed back through following Observing System components: Data Assimilation Initialization; Weather-to-Climate Observations: Surface, In-Situ, Satellite; Predictability Studies.
Development components (direct influence on Climate-Weather-to-Climate models within feedback loop from optimization indicated): Model Development Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF); Individual Discipline Process Studies; Data Assimilation Analyses.
Predictability Studies description: Model-based assessment of what variables impact forecast/prediction skill and level of skill to be anticipated,
Optimization description: Objective measure of agreement between prediction and validating observation.
Optimization followed by: 4) Application: Forecast, Adaptation, Mitigation.

[Slide 85]: 
Heading 1: NASA Earth System Model Example: 
Heading 3: NASA AGCM for climate and Weather (components):
NOAA/GFDL dynamics, NASA/GMAO physics, NOAA/GEDI ocean model, DOE/LANL sea ice model, GMAO LSM Land Surface Model,
GEOS-5 AOGCM integrates components from different sources using ESMF: a systems engineered structure, allowing collaborative exchange of model elements.
Heading 3: GMI Chemistry:
GEOS-5/GOCART aerosols, GMAO ocean biology.
With assimilation components and satellite data right-hand arrow science plus future mission design,

[Slide 86]: 
Heading 1: High-End Computing (HEC) Program:
Mission Objective: Plan and provision high-end computing systems and services to support NASA’s mission needs. Operate and manage these HEC resources for the benefit of Agency users, customers and stakeholders.
Key Science Products:
– Production of reanalysis products,
– Modeling and analysis products;
System Components:
– Compute: Modeling and data processing:
• Columbia – 89 TFlopsSGI Altix, • Pleiades – 516 TFlops SGI Altix-ICE, • explore – 7 TFlops SGI Altix BX2, • Dscover – 77 TFlopsIBM & Linux Networx;
– Storage: Model data archives, 
– Networks:Transportation of science data, 
– Services: Data visualization, computational performance tuning, & code scaling and porting.
Component examples (with provided illustrations): ‘Pleiades’ and ‘Columbia’ ARC/HECC; ‘Explore’ and ‘Discover’ GSFC/NCCS.
Mission Description:
Mission Life: Ongoing/Upgrade and refresh routinely and also scheduled to changing requirements.
Projects: ARC/HECC Cost: (Fiscal Year 09) $42M, GSFC/NCCS Cost: (Fiscal Year 09) $19M.
HECC project is an Agency investment managed by SMD.

[Slide 87]: 
Heading 1: High Speed Network:
High Speed Network map (United States):
Peering Points: ARC/CIEF Bay, California; CIEF Midwest; DC-CIEF, Washington, DC; CIEF Southeast; CIEF Southcentral, Texas; NASA Sites: JPL (California), JSC (Texas), KSC (Florida), LRC (Virginia), GSFC (Maryland), GRC (Ohio), MSFC (Alabama),
HEC and NISN paths indicated, for further assistance, contact SARA@nasa.gov,

[Slide 88]:  
Heading 1: High-End Computing Budget: 
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Category;  Fiscal Year 06, Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12, Fiscal Year 13,
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Category and for Fiscal Year 06, Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12, and Fiscal Year 13:
Row 2: Scientific Computing; 15.3; 18.9; 18.5; 18.9; 18.4; 18.6; 19.4; 19.9,
Row 3: High-End Computing Capability; 35.7; 38.9; 38.9; 41.9; 42.8; 43.8; 44.8; 45.9,
Row 4: Total; 48.8; 57.9; 57.4; 60.8; 61.2; 62.3; 64.2; 65.8;
End table.
Fiscal Year 05 - Fiscal Year 07 Actuals // Fiscal Year 08 Current Op Plan // Fiscal Year 09 through Fiscal Year 13 President’s Budget Submit:
Budget is approximately: one-third operations, one-third maintenance, one-third system refresh;
High-end computing @ ARC, Scientific computing is @ GSFC;
SMD PI-led projects late-2008 snapshot: 
268 projects: 136 with allocation only at ARC/NAS, 84 with allocation only at GSFC/NCCS, 42 with allocation at both;
131 Earth Science, 43 Heliophysics, 41 Planetary Science, 48 Astrophysics.

[Slide 89]: 
Heading 1: Earth Science Technology Development:
Science driven, competed, actively managed, dynamically communicated.
Competitive, peer-reviewed proposals enable selection of best-of-class technology investments.
Risks are retired before major dollars are invested: a cost-effective approach to technology development and validation.
This approach has resulted in: 
• a portfolio of emerging technologies that will enhance and/or enable future science measurements,
• a growing number of infusion successes:
– technologies are infused into: science campaigns, instruments, ground systems and missions,
– infusion is by competitive selection by science investigators ormission managers, not the technology program.

[Slide 90]: 
Heading 1: Implementation - Program Elements:
(Illustrative graphics for Observational, Informational Systems, and UAVSAR technologies accompany following subheads)]: 
Heading 3: Observational Technologies: 9 Solicitations (5-Two P, 4-ATI/ACT):
• Advanced Technology Initiatives (ATI) –  provides for concept studies and development of component and subsystem technologies (Advanced Component Technology (ACT) Program) for instruments and platforms.
• Instrument Incubator Program (I I P) – provides new instrument and measurement techniques, including lab development and airborne validation.
Heading 3: Information Systems Technologies: 5 Solicitations: 
• Advanced Information Systems Technologies (AIST) –  provides innovative on-orbit and ground capabilities for the communication, processing, and management of remotely sensed data and the efficient generation of data products and knowledge. Includes data manipulation, and visualization of very large, highly distributed remotely sensed data sets consistent with modeling needs.
Heading 3: Directed Technology Efforts: 
• NASA Laser Risk Reduction Program (LRRP) and Airborne Repeat Pass Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR).

[Slide 91]: 
Heading 1: Progress to Date:
In the ten years ESTO has existed, fourteen competitive researchsolicitations have been developed and issued, requesting everything from components and information technologies to instruments: 
• Over 440 Projects Completed to Date (through Fiscal Year 08): 
- Principal Investigators from more than 100 different organizations – academia, industry, national labs, and NASA centers – located in 32 states,
- More that 69% advanced at least 1 technology level (TRL) over their course of funding,
- Over 33% of projects have been infusedinto missions/campaigns,
- Over 41% of projects have a path identified for infusion;
• Current portfolio contains 132 active / recently awarded research projects, with more than 350 co-investigators.
• Many new measurement capabilities have been enabled.

[Slide 92]:  
Heading 1: Earth Science Technology Funding:
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Program, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12, Fiscal Year 13,
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Program and for Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12, and Fiscal Year 13:
Row 2: ATI; $7.9; $8.3; $9.0; $9.5; $9.7; $9.9,
Row 3: I I P; $23.4; $25.9; $28.2; $28.0; $28.8; $29.5,
Row 4: AIST; $11.7; $11.9; $12.0; $12.7; $13.0; $13.0,
Row 5: Total; $43.0; $46.1; $49.2; $50.2; $51.5; $52.4;
End table.

[Slide 93]:  
Heading 1: Heliophysics
• Research including technology development
• Sounding Rockets
• Research Range
• Modeling and Data Centers

[Slide 94]: 
Heading 1: Structure of the SMD Research Budget (Fiscal Year 09 President’s Request):
• Heliophysics: 
– Living With a Star:
• SDO, RBSP, Solar Probe, BARREL,
• Other Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– Solar Terrestrial Probes: 
• MMS,
• Other Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– Heliophysics Explorer:
• IBEX,
• Other Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– Heliophysics Research: 
• Research and Analysis (mission enabling),
• Sounding Rockets (mission enabling),
• ACE, Operating Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling),
• Research Range (mission enabling),
• GSFC Building;
– New Millennium;
– Near Earth Networks // Deep Space Mission Systems.

[Slide 95]:  
Heading 1: Research Competed Elements]:  
Heading 3: • Solar and Heliophysics SR&T: 
– Solar Magnetic Fields and Helioseismology, – Solar Activity, – Solar X- and gamma-ray, – UV/Optical, – IR/Sub-mm/Radio, – Heliospheric Physics, – Solar Wind, – CME and Solar System Response, –Advanced Tools and Techniques (new).
Heading 3: • Geospace SR&T:
– Inner and Outer Magnetosphere, – Ionosphere, – Mesosphere and Thermosphere, – Instrument Development.
Heading 3: • Low Cost Access to Space: 
– Solar and Helio SR Payloads, – Geospace SR Payloads.
Heading 3: • Heliophysics Theory Program,
Heading 3: • LWS Targeted R&T:  
Heading 4: • Focused Science Teams 2004-08:
Examples: – CME Constraints, – Response of atmosphere to solar XUV, – Magnetic connection between photosphere and corona, – Predict IMF at L1, – Extreme Space Weather, – Ionosphere-Magnetosphere Plasma redistribution, – Solar origins of irradiance variations, – Solar wind heating and acceleration, – Solar wind entry & transport in magnetosphere, – Sensitivity of climate to solar forcing, – Global electrodynamics in ionosphere.
Heading 4: • Strategic Capabilities 2005-08: 
Examples: – Integrated Model of Atmosphere and Ionosphere, – Comprehensive Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Model, – 3D Model of Solar Active Region, – Earth-Moon-Mars Radiation Model.

[Slide 96]:  
Heading 1: The LWS TR&T Program: 
• LWS is a systematic, goal-oriented research program targeting those aspects of the Sun-Earth system that affect life and society.
• The TR&T component of LWS is to provide the theory, modeling, and data analysis necessary to enable an integrated, system-wide approach to LWS science.
Heading 3: TR&T Supports: 
• Focused Science Teams,
• Strategic Capabilities,
• Cross-cutting Workshops,
• Summer Schools.
Heading 3: Selection for ROSES 2007: 
– 161 proposals submitted; 50 selected (success ratio: 1/3.2) for TR&T,
– Proposal selection March 2008, funding completed June/July 2008,
– Partnership with Planetary Division - one Focus Topic,
– 3 workshops/summer schools selected.
Heading 3: ROSES 2008:
– approximately $5M available,
– N O I due September 17, 2008. 
– Proposals due October 19, 2008.
– Announcements approximately March 19, 2009.
– TR&T greater than 100: 
• 5 FT (4 years), • I I/TM (3 years),
– SC less than 10 (5 years), 
– C/NOFs proposals greater than 20.

[Slide 97]:  
Heading 1: The Guest Investigator Program: 
• MO&DA for currently operating missions,
• Guest Investigator Program: 
– Includes special calls (e.g. C/NOFS, STEREO);
• SEC Data and Modeling Services:
– SDAC and VSO, 
– SPDF (e.g. CDAWeb, OMNIWeb, etc.), 
– CCMC, 
– New VxOs, 
– Resident Archives;
• Multimission Operations Project at GSFC: 
– Concentrates on control center functions and flight dynamics,
– Sustain operations and flight dynamics infrastructure,
– Promote new operations tools and architectures,
– Supports all Space-Science operations at GSFC.

[Slide 98]:  
Heading 1: Heliophysics Research Budget: 
For Fiscal Year 2007, the following aggregates the competed research budget, including Low Cost Access to Space (LCAS -Sounding Rocket Payloads):
• “SR&T”, $50.2 M:
– Solar-Heliosphere SR&T,
– Geospace SR&T, 
– Heliophysics Theory, 
– LWS Target Research and Technology;
• Guest Investigator Program, $11.5 M: 
– Geospace GI Program, 
– Solar and Heliospheric GI Program;
• Data and Computing, $14.0 M: 
– Applied Information Research Program (AISRP), 
– VXOs, and Theory Modeling and Data Services;
• Mission Science Teams (other than “Heliophysics R&A”), $15.0 M: 
– PI teams for missions and instruments selected through AO, 
– Additional team members selected through competition:
• Participating scientists, interdisciplinary scientists, science working group members, etc.;
• Extended Missions research and data analysis funding (Fiscal Year 08 planning number –competed via Senior Review Process every two-three years), $17.8 M.
Heading 3: Total Heliophysics Competed,  $108.5 M.

[Slide 99]:  
Heading 1: Heliophysics Balance in SR&T: 
Pie chart: Proposals selected Fiscal Year 2005 - 2007:
Solar: 32.3% , HELIO (23.0%), IT-M (17.7%), MAG (26.9%),

[Slide 100]:  
Heading 1: Proposals by Science Program:  
Pie chart: 421 funded proposals through Fiscal Year 07:
LWS TR&T, 118; VxO, 7; Solar and Heliosphere SR&T, 107; Geospace SR&T, 107; Theory, 10; Guest Investigator, 107,

[Slide 101]:  
Heading 1: Mission Ops & Data Analysis (Estimated) 2008:
Mission Ops & Data Analysis (Est.) 2008
Color-coded pie chart corresponds to following components (in millions of dollars)]: 
Heading 3: Prime Ops: 
AIM, 2.6; THEMIS, 11.1; IBEX, 0.1; STEREO, 17.7; Hinode, 12.4; CINDI, 1.1; TWINS, 2.3,
Heading 3: Extended Ops: 
Voyager, 4.3; SOHO, 9.6; Wind, 2.5; Geotail, 0.6; Cluster Two, 5.1; ACE, 4.1; Fast, 1.9; Trace, 2.7; Rhessi, 2.5,

[Slide 102]: 
Heading 1: Characterization of Fiscal Year 07 Completed Elements:
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Element, Win Rate, Average Award ($K), New Awards ($M),
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Element, Win Rate, Average Award ($K), and New Awards ($M),
Row 2: GI program (GI-Geospace); 34%; 90.9; 4.3,
Row 3: GI program (GI-S&H); 30%; 92.9; 5.2,
Row 4: Geospace SR&T (w/LCAS).Geo-ST&T; 26%; 157.3; [no entry for New Awards ($M)],
Row 5: HP Theory Program; 35%; 417.1; 3.9,
Row 6: Solar-Heliospheric SR&T (w/LCAS)/S-H SR&T; 13%; 90.7; 2.8,
Row 7: LWS –TRT; 28%; 110.0; 3.9,
Row 8: ASIRP, Data, Computing, and Models/ASIRP-A; N/A; N/A; 3.4,
Row 9: ASIRP, Data, Computing, and Models/ASIRP-H; 15%; 136.4; 3.2,
Row 10: ASIRP, Data, Computing, and Models/VxO; 50%; 85.2; 2.1,
Row 11: Grand Aggregate; 25%; 140.2; 22.3,
Note: * Partial data available;
End table.

[Slide 103]:  
Heading 1: Heliophysics Funding History:
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right) Category, Fiscal Year 07 Final Released Amount, Fiscal Year 08 Final Released Amount, Fiscal Year 09 Projected Amounts,
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Category and for Fiscal Year 07 Final Released Amount, Fiscal Year 08 Final Released Amount, and Fiscal Year 09 Projected Amounts,
Row 2: Geospace Science; 12,904,693; 13,166,536; 13,326,601,
Row 3: Solar and Heliospheric; 15,806,893; 15,666,522; 15,869,190,
Row 4: Space Physics Theory; 3,806,414; 4,120,942; 4,259,209;
Row 5 LWS TR&T; 17,672,359; 17,406,000; 19,687,000,
Row 6: SR&T Total; 50,190,359; 50,360,000; 53,142,000,
Row 7: Guest Investigator; 11,651,000; 10,923,605; 14,053,000,
Row 8: AISRP plus NSSDC; 9,940,000; 9,730,000; 10,300,000,
Row 9: VxO: 2,111,304; 3,143,000; 3,702,000,
Row 10: SEC Data & Modeling; 2,000,000; 2,000,000; 2,000,000,
Row 11: Data & Computing Total; 14,051,304; 14,873,000; 16,002,000,
Row 12: Total; 75,892,663; 76,156,605; 83,197,000;
End table.

[Slide 104]:  
Heading 1: NASA Sounding Rocket Program:
[two illustrations of sounding rockets displayed],
• NASA is the custodian of the national capability for custom, sub-orbital rockets technology, payloads and remote field operations. 
• The capabilities of the sounding rocket program are drawn upon by a diverse science community, the Department of Defense and Industryfor a variety of purposes.
• Key Characteristics:
– Low-cost, responsive aerospace activity,
– Support diverse launch locations,
– Fly payloads from 80 to over 1500 km in altitude,
– Support small to large payloads (10 to 1500 lb),
– Construct complex, custom-payloads with attitude control, complex deployments and telemetry;
• The Sounding Rocket Program supports the research facilities, infrastructure, and rocket operations only; range services and payloads are separately funded.
• Program Objectives: Provide suborbital launch vehicles, payload integration, and field operations to support low-cost access to space for:
– scientific investigations in geospace, solar physics, and astronomy,
– technology development of vehicle systems,
– development & test of future space-based measurement concepts and sensors;
• Mission Rate: 20-24 rocket flights per year. Auroral campaigns to polar regions (Alaska or Norway) once per year.

[Slide 105]:  
Heading 1: NASA Suborbital Sounding Rockets: 
• Stable of 8 vehicles covering max altitudes from 100-1500 kilometers, using various motor combinations (Terrier, Black Brant, etc)
• Sounding rocket vehicles are composed of military surplus and commercially available rocket motors
• Vehicle selection is based on payload weight and scientific requirements;
Graphs: NASA Sounding Rocket Vehicles and their Rocket Vehicle Performance; benchmarks for Brant Vehicle and Surplus Vehicle; Performance; Note: Many lower ionosphere payloads are too long for surplus vehicles making them unstable. Hence, single stage Black Brants are frequently used instead; for further information contact SARA@nasa.gov.

[Slide 106]:  
Heading 1: World-Wide Operations: 
Because many scientific investigations rely on in-situ measurements, launch operations must be conducted from sites around the world. 
Norway – within the auroral oval, availability of down range observation sites, and access to unique instrumentation.
Australia – observation of the southern sky and large land area to support special trajectories and recovery.
Sweden – Favorable ionospheric conditions.
Kwajalein – close to the magnetic equator.
Graphic: Hemispheric map for world-wide operations, source: www.theodore.com/maps, two images: radar and space observation.

[Slide 107]: 
Heading 1: Flight History Since 2000 (Fiscal Year):
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right) Site, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Site, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007: 
Row 2: Wallops; 6; 5; 7; 11; 4; 4; 3; 5,
Row 3: WSMR; 7; 6; 8; 6; 7; 5; 4; 5,
Row 4: Poker; 3; (no entry for 2001);11; 7; (no entry for 2004); 3; (no entry for 2006); 10,
Row 5: Kwajalein; (entry for 2004 only, 14),
Row 6: Norway; (no entry for 2000 and 2001); 2; 1; 1; (no entry for 2005); 1; 4,
Row 7: Sweden; (entry for 2003 only, 2) 
Row 8: Totals (science payloads only), 16; 11; 28; 27; 26; 12; 8; 24;
End table. 
Bar graph: illustrates previous values for Row 7, totals

[Slide 108]:  
Heading 1: Fiscal Year 09 Sounding Rocket Program Cost Elements: 
The following table depicts the major cost elements for the NASA Sounding Rocket Program for Fiscal Year 09. This budget is consistent with the need to recover from previous cost reduction actions as well as meeting the projected flight rate. 
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right) Program Element, Cost,
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Program Element and Cost:
Row 2: Civil Service Labor; $3.6 M,
Row 3: Contractor Labor; $16.9 M,
Row 4: Rocket Motor Procurements (Brant & Nihka); $6.0 M,
Row 5: Hardware Inventory Replenishment; $1.0 M,
Row 6: Fiscal Year 09 Mission Hardware Procurements, $4.8 M,
Row 7: Fiscal Year 09 Mission Support Systems Refurbishment & Analysis; $1.5 M,
Row 8: Logistics, Travel, System Development & Miscellaneous; $5.9 M,
Row 9: White Sands and Poker Range Support Contracts (fixed and variable costs); $3.6 M,
Row 10: Other Support Contracts (Indian Head, WICC, CSC, etc.); $ 1.9 M,
Row 11: Total: $ 45.1 M;
End table. 

[Slide 109]: 
Heading 1: Sounding Rocket Program Budget History,
Sounding Rocket Program President's Budget (planning years): values provided in non-zero based millions of 2008 dollars for fiscal years 1994 through 2013. Benchmarks indicated: Reserves and supplies drawn down in program [Fiscal Year 97 through Fiscal Year 01]; program shutting down [Fiscal Year 01]; recovery attempted [Fiscal Year 02 through Fiscal Year 05]; restricted capability in launch sites and high performance rockets, NRC finding “bring back to previous level” [arrows indicate range in both directions centered over Fiscal Year 03 through Fiscal Year 07], exploration initiative [Fiscal Year 06], program shutting down [starting at Fiscal Year 08]; budgetary range indicated in millions of 2008 dollars from peak at Fiscal Year 94 of approximately 58 to Fiscal Year 09 value of 45, with lowest value indicated of 30 [Fiscal Year 08]; for further assistance with this chart contact SARA@nasa.gov.

[Slide 110]: 
Heading 1: Research Range: 
Wallops Flight Facility’s Research Range is a unique national resource enabling flexible, low-cost space access, in-flight science, and technology research for all of NASA and the Nation.
It is the only Launch Range that NASA owns.
• Enabling Science from Earth to Orbit and Beyond,
• Vehicle Development and Risk Reduction Missions,
• Proof of Concept Missions and Technology Testing,
• Partnered with Mission Directorates and Centers.
Two aerial photographic views: Wallops Mainbase and Research Airfield, Wallops Island Launch Range.

[Slide 111]: 
Heading 1: Components of the Research Range:
• Tracking, Telemetry & Command Instrumentation:
– Radar systems, 
– Telemetry systems,  
– Command/Destruct Systems, 
– Video Tracking/Recording, 
– Radio, intercom and voice circuits, 
– Weather measurement & assessment;
• Mobile Systems: 
– All TT&C instrumentation packaged in mobile vans for deployment worldwide;
• Range Control Center,
• Airspace and Airfield Services: 
– WFF controlled airspace R-6604, 
– 3 major + 1-UAV-dedicated runways, 
– Air traffic control tower;
• Facilities and Launchers (funded separately): 
– Spacecraft processing & hazardous processing facilities, 
– Vehicle integration bay, 
– Simulation & Test labs, 
– Launch control blockhouse, 
– ELV launcher & gantry, 
– 20K and 50K launchers.
Illustrations for: Tracking Radar, Range Control Center, WFF-controlled airspace, Launchers, Hazardous Processing Facility, Mobile Range Systems.

[Slide 112]:  
Heading 1: Research Range Annual Usage: 
Heading 2: Complexity-weighted Annual Average Usage:
Pie chart for Complexity-weighted Annual Average usage; components: 
NASA Science 28%, NASA Aeronautics 23%, Non-NASA 28%, NASA Space Operatoins 15%, NASA Exploration 6%;
Heading 2: Average Annual Usage Events:
(Event category provided followed by number of events):
ELV Support from WFF; 1-2, 
Field Campaigns; 1-2, 
Suborbital-class Rockets; 7, 
Small Rockets; 20, 
Shuttle Launch; 1-2, 
Orbital Tracks (ISS/STS); 389, 
UAVs/ Drop Models; 143, 
Aircraft Tests;144, 
Ground System Tests; 30, 
DoD Targets; 24, 
DoD Gun Tests; 3, 
Other Tests; 20;
884 total events (approximately 680 NASA Events), 
Airspace Activated 189 days in 2006.

[Slide 113]: 
Heading 1: Research Range & Sounding Rocket Program Budget:
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right) Category, Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12, Fiscal Year 13,
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Category and for Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12, and Fiscal Year 13:
Row 2: Research Range; 17.5; 17.4; 18.3; 19.2; 18.6; 19.2; 19.6,
Row 3: Sounding Rockets ; 31.9; 33.6; 45.1; 47.3; 48.9; 49.7; 51.8;
End table.
Table: 
Row 1: Sounding Rocket Payloads (included in Division SR&T budgets); Fiscal Year 05, Fiscal Year 06, Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, 
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Sounding Rocket Payloads; Fiscal Year 05, Fiscal Year 06, Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, and Fiscal Year 09 (no entries are provided for Fiscal Years 2010 through 2013):  
Row 2: Heliophysics; 4; 4; 6; 7; 7, 
Row 3: Astrophysics; (values unknown for Fiscal Year 05 and Fiscal Year 06); 12; 13; 15;
End table.

[Slide 114]:
Heading 1: Data Archives & Modeling Centers:
• Heliophysics Data and Model Consortium: 
– Set up in Fiscal Year 09 to manage the new infrastructure for Heliophysics data archiving and access, 
– Budget of $3.6M in Fiscal Year 09, slated to grow to approximately $4M/year in next few years, 
– Decisions on directions, etc. are made by an Implementation Working Group consisting of representatives of the various HDMC components.
Heading 2: HDMC Supported Activities: 
• Discipline specific Virtual Observatories (“VxOs”) to uniformize access to all data from each subdiscipline (e.g. Magnetospheric Physics) (approximately $2.3M per year for a total of approximately 7 groups in the current building phase, to decrease with maturity; solar is funded currently through SDAC.)
• Data Restoration projects (retrieve old data, make any data more compatible with new architectures) (approximately $300K per year; fluctuates, but relatively stable for now.)
• Resident Archives to continue serving mission data after a mission ends but its data are still widely used (approximately $350K per year, expected to grow as more missions end, with somewhat balancing decreases due to moves to Final Archives as specific dataset use declines.)
• Value added services to make VxOs and archives more effective (e.g., event-based and visual searches, format independent data readers and plotting tools) (approximately $450K per year; to be balanced with and combined with core VxO services).

[Slide 115]: 
Heading 1: Heliophysics Data Centers at GSFC: 
Heading 2: Space Physics Data Facility: 
• Final multi-mission active archive for Space Physics Data. 
• Holder and maintainer of an active inventory of all HP data.
• Provider of easily used orbit data. 
• Maintainer and developer of CDF (becoming defacto standard for space physics). 
• Provider of active mission data by arrangement with missions. 
Header 2: Solar Data Analysis Center: 
• Provider of access to HP solar physics data. 
• Final active archive for solar physics data. 
• Maintainer of SolarSoft analysis tools. 
• Coordinator of the Virtual Solar Observatory effort. 
• Primary or secondary provider of active mission data for a number of current missions.
Heading 2: Community Coordinated Modeling Center:
• Coordinating center for HP models in all areas. 
• Provides runs on request, help with models, online and desktop analysis tools, and a catalogued archive of previous runs. 
• In conjunction with other agencies, works to advance models to provide an operational space weather prediction capability. 
Illustrative icons accompany previous center headings: planetary and solar images.

[Slide 116]:
Heading 1: Planetary Science: 
• Research including technology development and data analysis
• Planetary Data System
• Astromaterials Curation
• Research and Support Facilities

[Slide 117]: 
Heading 1: Structure of the SMD Research Budget (Fiscal Year 09 President’s Request): 
• Planetary Science: 
– Discovery: 
• GRAIL, MMM, Future Missions,
• Discovery Research (mission enabling),
• Operating Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– New Frontiers: 
• Juno, 
• Other Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– Technology (mission enabling),
– Planetary Science Research: 
• Research and Analysis (mission enabling), 
• Lunar Science Research (mission enabling), 
• Operating Missions and Analysis (mission enabling), 
• Education and Directorate Management [for SMD]; 
– Mars Exploration: 
• MSL, MAVEN, JPL Building,
• Mars Research and Analysis (mission enabling), 
• Operating Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– Outer Planets (mission enabling).

[Slide 118]:
Heading 1: Structure of Planetary R&A: 
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Basic Research, Focused Research, Mission Data Analysis and Participating Scientists, Technology Development,
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Basic Research, Focused Research, Mission Data Analysis and Participating Scientists, Technology Development:
Row 2: Planetary Geology & Geophysics; Planetary Protection; Planetary Mission Data Analysis; Propulsion and Power,
Row 3: Cosmochemistry; Planetary Major Equipment; Lab Analysis of Returned Samples; Planetary Instruments,
Row 4: Planetary Atmospheres; Mars Fundamental; Mars Data Analysis & Mars PS; Mars Instruments & Technology,
Row 5: Planetary Astronomy; Near-Earth Objects; MESSENGER; Dawn & Venus PS; Astrobiology Instruments; & Analogs,
Row 6: Origins of Solar Systems; Lunar Research & NASA Lunar Science Institute; Lunar Recon Orbiter PS; Lunar Sorties & Analogs,
Row 7: Astrobiology-Exobiology & NASA Astrobiology Institute; Outer Planets; Jupiter and Cassini Data, Analysis; (no entry for Technology Development), 
Row 8: Research programs for post docs, graudate & undergrad students; (no entry for Focused Research); SALMON PS; (no entry for Technology Development);
End table.

[Slide 119]:
Heading 1: Planetary Missions and Focused Research: 
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Solar System Body; Missions; Data Analysis & Participating Scientists; Focused Research; Applied Research & Technology, 
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Solar System Body; Missions; Data Analysis & Participating Scientists; Focused Research; and Applied Research & Technology: 
Row 2: Sun; Genesis, Ulysses, Voyager  (Past missions); LARS (SRLIDAP) (In development); (no entries for Focused Research and Applied Research & Technology), 
Row 3: Mercury & Venus; Mariner 10, Magellan (Past missions), MESSENGER (Operating mission), Venus Express (Operating foreign mission), Bepi-Columbo (Foreign missions);  MESSENGER PS, Venus Express PS (In development); (no entry for Focused Research); Venus SDT (In development), 
Row 4: Moon; Apollo, Clementine, Prospector (Past missions), M3 (Operating foreign mission), LRO, LCROSS, Grail, LADEE, ILN (In development); LASER, LRO, PS (In development); LASER, NLSI (In development); LASER, MMAMA, NLSI, ILN SDT (In development), 
Row 5: Mars; MPF, MGS (Past missions), Odyssey, MER (Operating missions), Mars Express (Operating foreign mission), MRO (Operating mission), Phoenix (Past mission), MSL, MAVEN (In development), ExoMars (Foreign mission); MDAP, Mars PS (In development); MFRP, AB/EXO, NAI (In development); MIDP, MTP (In development), 
Row 6: Asteroids & Comets; NEAR, Stardust, Deep Impact (Past missions), Stardust NExT, Dawn, EPOXI, WISE (Operating missions), Rosetta, Hayabusa, NEOsat (Operating foreign missions); LARS (SRLIDAP), Dawn PS (In development); (no entry for Focused Research); NEOO (In development), 
Row 7: Outer Planets; Voyager, Gallileo (Past missions), Cassini, New Horizons (Operating missions), Juno (In development); OPR, JDAP, CDAP (In development); OPR, AB/EXO, NAI (In development); OPF SDT (In development);
End table.

[Slide 120]:
Heading 1: Planetary R&A Overview: 
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): ROSES, Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, 
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for ROSES and for Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, and Fiscal Year 09: 
Row 2: Mars R&A (Mars Fundamental Research and Mars DAP); $14,158; $19,936; $24,938, 
Row 3: Discovery Research (includes Sample Return Lab Institute & DAP, Discovery DAP & Stardust DAP, and MESSENGER Participating Scientists); $11,881 $13,556 $18,816, 
Row 4: Planetary R&A (includes Planetary Geology & Geophysics, Cosmochemistry, Planetary Astronomy, Planetary Atmospheres, Planetary Instruments, Origins of Solar Systems, Planetary Protection, Outer Planets Research, New Horizons & Jupiter DAP, and Cassini Data Analysis Program); $79,256; $93,537; $92,657, 
Row 5: Astrobiology (includes ASTEP, ASTID, NASA Astrobiology Institute, and Astrobiology: Exo and Evo); $32,414; $40,033; $49,724, 
Row 6: Lunar Research (includes Lunar Sortie Science Opportunity, LRO Participating Scientist Program, Lunar Advanced Science & Exploration Research, and NASA Lunar Science Institute);  $0; $18,487; $22,800,  
Row 7: Total Planetary  Research; $137,708; $185,549; $208,935; 
End table.

[Slide 121]:
Heading 1: Planetary Missions and Focused Research:
R&A Fiscal Year 08 Budget Balance pie chart showing Basic Research, Focused R&A, Astrobiology, Mars, Moon, Outer planets, Instrument Technology, PDS and Curation, and Other support: Basic Research is cross-cutting; Astrobiology is minus technology. For further assistance with this chart, contact SARA@nasa.gov.

[Slide 122]:
Heading 1: Recent Proposal Statistics: 
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Fiscal Year, Program, Proposals, Selected, Percentage; 
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Fiscal Year, Program, Proposals, Selected, and Percentage:
Row 2: 2008; Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets; 54; 7; 13%,
Row 3: 2007; Astrobiology Science and Technology Instrument Development; 97; 17; 18%,
Row 4: 2007; Astrobiology: Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology; 113; 33; 29%,
Row 5: 2008; Cassini Data Analysis; 61; 20; 33%,
Row 6: 2008; Cosmochemistry; 68; 31; 46%,
Row 7: 2008; Jupiter Data Analysis; 40; 14; 35%,
Row 8: 2007; Lunar Advanced Science and Exploration Research; 162; 43; 27%,
Row 9: 2007; Mars Data Analysis; 78; 33; 42%,
Row 10: 2008; Mars Fundamental Research; 95; 21; 22%,
Row 11: 2008; NASA Lunar Science Institute; 33; 7; 21%,
Row 12: 2008; Near Earth Object Observations; 15; 4; 27%,
Row 13: 2008; Origins of Solar Systems; 94; 30; 32%,
Row 14: 2007; Outer Planets Research; 120; 29; 24%,
Row 15: 2008; Planetary Astronomy (PAST); 46; 18; 39%,
Row 16: 2008; Planetary Atmospheres (PATM); 81; 30; 37%,
Row 17: 2008; Planetary Geology and Geophysics; 114; 28; 25%,
Row 18: 2007; Planetary Instrument Definition and Development; 115; 15; 13%, 
Row 19: 2007; Planetary Mission Data Analysis; 30; 15; 50%,
Row 20: 2008; Sample Return Laboratory Instruments and Data Analysis; 28; 15; 54%,
Row 21: Total Fiscal Years; All programs; 1444; 410; 28%; 
End table.

[Slide 123]:
Heading 1: Planetary Data System:
• PDS is the official planetary science data archive for the NASA SMD Planetary Science Division
• PDS is chartered to ensure that planetary data are archived and available to the scientific community
• PDS is a distributed system designed to optimize scientific oversight in the archiving process
• Science nodes focus on data ingestion, distribution, and supplier and user interaction
• Support nodes focus on infrastructure, basic development and cross-discipline support

[Slide 124]: 
Heading 1: Planetary Data System Organization: 
Planetary Data System (PDS) circular diagram indicating Nodes/Subnodes/Data Nodes and function. 
Central node: Planetary Data System; 
First circle of entries surrounding central hub, Nodes: Rings, Imaging, Planetary Plasma Interactions, Geosciences, Atmospheres, Engineering, Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF), Small Bodies; Functional component: Radio Science;
Outer circle of subnodes and descriptors for first circle entries:
1. for Rings: SETI Institute; 2. for Imaging: United States Geological Survey (Flagstaff, Arizona); Subnode, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Data nodes, University of Arizona and Arizona State University; 3. for Planetary Plasma Interactions: University of California at Los Angeles; Subnodes: Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) and University of Iowa; 4. for Geosciences: Washington University; Data nodes: University of Arizona and Arizona State University; 5. for Atmospheres: New Mexico State University; 5. for Engineering: Jet Propulsion Laboratory; 6. for Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF): Jet Propulsion Laboratory; 7. for Small Bodies: University of Maryland; Subnodes: University of Hawaii and Planetary Science Institute; 8. for Radio Science: Stanford University; 
End diagram:

[Slide 125]:
Heading 1: Astromaterials Curation (@JSC):
• Responsible for physical curation and security of all NASA Astromaterials, including those from future missions;
• Curation tasks includes:
– Documentation, preservation, preparation and distribution for research and display, 
– Preserving the physical and environmental security in JSC Curation Labs,
– Developing and implementing detailed procedures on curation and security;
• Curation facilities and team: 
– Special clean rooms for each collection, 
– Highly trained curators and technicians.

[Slide 126]:
Heading 1: Astromaterials Curation Facilities:
Photographs of: JSC Curation Building (exterior), Genesis Lab (interior), and work in progress at Lunar Lab, Meteorite Lab, Cosmic Dust Lab, and Stardust Lab.

[Slide 127]:
Heading 1: Planetary Research Support: 
• Planetary Data System (PDS) mission data archive:  
– Management Node at GSFC, 
– 2 Support nodes at JPL [Engineering and Navigational & AncillaryInformation (NAIF)],  
– 6 Distributed Science nodes [Atmospheres, Geosciences, Imaging, Planetary Plasma Interactions; (PPI), Planetary Rings, Small Bodies];
• Astromaterials Curation (@JSC) returned sample archive: 
– Apollo Lunar Samples,
– Meteorites from Antarctica,
– Cosmic Dust from Stratosphere,
– Genesis Solar Wind,
– Stardust Comet Coma.
Table:
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Support Task, Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09;
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Support Task and for Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, and Fiscal Year 09:
Row 2: Astromaterials Curation; $4.187M; $5.072M; $4.712M, 
Row 3: Planetary Data System; $11.408M; $10.606M; $11.176M, 

[Slide 128]:
Heading 1: Research and Support Facilities: 
• Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI, Houston)
• InfraRedTelescope Facility (IRTF, Hawaii)
• Regional Planetary Image Facilities (RPIF): 
– 9 U.S., 
– 8 foreign;
• Planetary Cartography (USGS, Flagstaff)
• RELAB (reflectance spectroscopy, Brown Univesrsity)
• Vertical Gun Lab (ARC)
• Planetary Aeolian Lab (ARC)
• Budgets are part of the Planetary R&A line.

[Slide 129]:
Heading 1: Astrophysics:
• Research including technology development
• Guest Observer Programs
• Scientific Balloons
• Astrophysics Data Centers

[Slide 130]: 
Structure of the SMD Research Budget (Fiscal Year 09 President’s Request): 
• Astrophysics: 
– Astrophysics Research: 
• Research and Analysis (mission enabling),
• Balloon Project (mission enabling),
• Operating Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– Cosmic Origins: 
• Hubble, JWST, SOFIA, Spitzer,
• Astrophysics Future Missions (mission enabling);
– Physics of the Cosmos:
• Fermi, JDEM, Herschel, Planck, 
• Chandra, Other Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– Exoplanet Exploration: 
• SIM, Kepler, 
• Other Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling);
– Astrophysics Explorer:
• WISE, NuSTAR, 
• Operating Missions and Data Analysis (mission enabling).

[Slide 131]: 
Heading 1: Astrophysics Program Descriptions: 
• Astrophysics Research: 
– The supporting research & technology component develops new detectors and technologies for use in future major missions; balloons and rockets advance the readiness of the technologies and perform science observations; laboratory astrophysics measures properties of matter in conditions approximating astrophysical situations; theory and data analysis transform data into knowledge and knowledge into the questions & technology that drive future missions. 
• Cosmic Origins – How the Universe evolved from the Big Bang to people: 
– Discover how matter clumped into large-scale filaments and structures to form the cosmic web for the formation of galaxies and clusters of galaxies; how they evolved into the galaxies of stars, gas and dust that we see today; how stars and planetary systems formwithin the galaxies.
• Physics of the Cosmos – Explore the fundamental nature of the Universe: 
– Explore the nature of space, time, energy and matter; the behavior of fundamental particles and forces of nature (dark matter, dark energy); the processes that shape the structure and composition of the Universe as a whole (the Big Bang and accelerated expansion of the Universe).
• Exoplanet Exploration – The search for life elsewhere in the Universe: 
– Determine the frequency of planetary systems and measure the properties of stars that harbor planets, the percentage of terrestrial and larger planets that are in or near the habitable zone of a wide variety of stars and measure their orbits, search for evidence of life on those planets.
• Astrophysics Explorer: 
– Small PI-led astrophysics missions selected for innovative science and to fill the scientific gaps between the larger missions.

[Slide 132]: 
Heading 1: Astrophysics Budget Split (Fiscal Year 2000 to Fiscal Year 2013)
Astrophysics Budget Split (Fiscal Year 2000-Fiscal Year 2013) graph indicates Percent of NASA Astrophysics Budget allocated for Research Grants (Mission Operations and Development Programs) from Fiscal Year 2000 to Fiscal Year 2013; approximate range for Development Programs is 73 through 77% and for Mission Operations approximately 13 percent (with total for research combined approximating 92%); for further assistance with this graph, contact SARA@nasa.gov.

[Slide 133]; 
Heading 1: Astrophysics Research Budget: 
• For Fiscal Year 2008, the following aggregates the competed Astrophysics research budget excluding flight hardware development:
– “Standard”Astrophysics R&A, $72M;
– Mission Guest Observer, $70M; 
– Mission Science Teams, approximately $60M:
• PI teams for missions and instruments selected through AO, 
• Additional team members selected through competition, 
• Participating scientists, 
• Interdisciplinary scientists, 
• Science working group members.
– Total Astrophysics research and data analysis funding, approximately $200M.

[Slide 134]: 
Heading 1: Astrophysics SR&T Elements:
• $72M in Fiscal Year 2008 
• Astronomy & Physics Research & Analysis ($39M): 
– Categories of Investigations: 
• Suborbital Investigations, 
• Detector Development, 
• Supporting Technology (Optics, Coatings, Coronagraphs, …),
• Laboratory Astrophysics, 
• Ground-based; 
– Disciplines: 
• Particle Astrophysics, 
• Gamma-Ray, 
• X-ray, 
• UV/Optical, 
• IR/Sub-mm/Radio;
• Astrophysical Theory & Fundamental Physics ($11M)
• Origins of Solar Systems ($3M)
• Astrophysics Data Analysis Program ($15M)
• Strategic Mission Concept Studies ($4M).

[Slide 135]:
Heading 1: Astrophysics Statistics: 
ROSES-2007 table:
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Category, Proposals, Selected, Win Rate;
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Category, Proposals, Selected, and Win Rate:
Row 2: SR&T (APRA, ATFP, ADP, Orig SS); 559; 150; 27%,
Row 3: GO (GALEX, GLAST, Kepler, Suzaku, Swift); 530; 187; 35%,
Row 4: Total; 1089; 337; 31%;
End table.

[Slide 136]:
Heading 1: Astrophysics Fiscal Year 2008 SR&T Snapshot: 
Pie chart for Astrophysics Fiscal Year 2008 SR&T, Total Fiscal Year 2008 Funding $65M, individual components:  ADP; 18%; Particle Astrophysics; 10%; Gamma-Ray & X-ray, 19%; UV/Optical/IR/Sub-mm, 30%; Origins of Solar Systems, 5%; AT & FP, 18%.

[Slide 137]:
Heading 1: Fiscal Year 2008 Astrophysics Mission GO Funding: 
Pie chart for Astrophysics Fiscal Year 2008 Astrophysics Mission, Total Fiscal Year 2008 Funding $70M, individual components:  Spitzer, Hubble (two largest components, for further information contact SARA@nasa.gov); GLAST, INTEGRAL, Swift, Chandra, XMM-Newton, Suzaku, GALEX.

[Slide 138]
Heading 1: Astrophysics Funding History:
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Category, Fiscal Year 04 Actuals, Fiscal Year 05 Actuals, Fiscal Year 06 Actuals, Fiscal Year 07 Actuals, Fiscal Year 08 Guideline, Fiscal Year 09 Targets; 
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Category and for Fiscal Year 04 Actuals, Fiscal Year 05 Actuals, Fiscal Year 06 Actuals, Fiscal Year 07 Actuals, Fiscal Year 08 Guideline, and Fiscal Year 09 Targets:
Row 1: Particle Astro; $8,248,000; $7,670,887; $8,543,526; $6,971,071; $7,396,076; $7,600,000,
Row 2: High Energy Astro; $14,548,000; $13,693,202; $14,779,227; $12,131,980; $12,421,315; $14,700,000,
Row 3: UV/Opt; $8,643,000; $7,919,208; $6,486,966; $5,158,608; $5,647,661; $6,300,000,
Row 4: IR/Sub-mm; $11,766,000; $10,822,918; $15,363,712; $12,146,210; $13,297,713; $14,800,000,
Row 5: Other; $1,019,000; $854,085; $337,664; $931,616; $559,020; $500,000,
Row 6: APRA Total; $44,224,000; $40,960,300; $45,511,095; $37,339,485; $39,321,785; $43,900,000,
Row 7: Orig SS; $4,209,000; $3,871,613; $4,149,617; $3,673,163; $3,441,703; $2,900,000,
Row 8: ATFP; $7,860,000; $7,363,285; $10,245,457; $10,106,352; $10,859,512; $12,200,000,
Row 9: ADP/LTSA; $16,986,000; $15,700,000; $15,188,960; $14,615,000; $14,513,000; $14,800,000,
Row 10: Astrophysics Core R&A; $73,279,000; $67,895,198; $75,095,129; $65,734,000; $68,136,000; $73,800,000,
Row 11: TPF/FS; $2,000,000; $2,000,000; (no entries for Fiscal Years 06 through 09),
Row 12: BEFS; $4,000,000; $3,000,000; $2,000,000; (no entries for Fiscal Years 07 through 09)
Row 13: ASMCS; (no entries for Fiscal Years 04 through 07); $3,938,000; $2,000,000,
Row 14: TOTAL R&A; $79,279,000; $72,895,198; $77,095,129; $65,734,000; $72,074,000; $75,800,000,
Row 15: Hubble; $25,421,259; $26,493,569; $26,200,000; $25,000,000; $22,300,000; $24,700,000,
Row 16: Chandra; $9,500,000; $9,200,000; $10,100,000; $10,000,000; $11,800,000; $11,800,000,
Row 17: Spitzer; $22,025,000; $20,000,000; $21,000,000; $25,500,000; $20,000,000; $20,000,000,
Row 18: GLAST; (no entries for Fiscal Years 04 through 07); $4,500,000; $8,000,000,
Row 19: WISE; (no entries for Fiscal Years 04 through 09),
Row 20: Kepler; (no entries for Fiscal Years 04 through 08); $1,300,000,
Row 21: Herschel; (no entries for Fiscal Years 04 through 07); $2,500,000; $11,600,000,
Row 22: GALEX; $2,000,000; $2,000,000; $2,000,000; $1,800,000; $2,000,000; $2,000,000,
Row 23: RXTE; $900,000; $900,000; $900,000; $800,000; (no entries for Fiscal Years 08 and 09),
Row 24: Suzaku; (no entries for Fiscal Years 04 and 05); $1,700,000; $1,700,000; $1,000,000; $1,000,000,
Row 25: Swift;  (no entry for Fiscal Year 05); $1,000,000; $1,000,000; $1,500,000; $1,800,000; $1,500,000,
Row 26: XMM; $5,500,000; $5,500,000; $5,800,000; $5,500,000; $5,700,000; $5,700,000,
Row 27: INTEGRAL; $1,000,000; $1,000,000; $1,000,000; $900,000; $1,000,000; (no entry for Fiscal Year 09),
Row 28: WMAP; (no Fiscal Year entries provided),
Row 29: TOTAL GO; $66,346,259; $66,093,569; $69,700,000; $72,700,000; $72,600,000; $87,600,000, 
Row 30: (no entry for Category); Last normal R&A; $7M R&A cut; smaller R&A cut; 15% R&A cut; Partial recovery; More R&A recovery; 
End table.
• Considering R&A Senior Review to assess balance between R&A elements/programs
• GO Funding is approximate

[Slide 139];
Heading 1: Scientific Balloon Project: 
• Balloon flight operations are managed by the Balloon Program Office (BPO) at the Wallops Flight Facility:
– The flights are conducted by the staff of the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, a government owned, contractor-operated facility located in Palestine, Texas. The Physical Science Laboratory of New Mexico State University operates the facility under a competitive contract to the Wallops Flight Facility.
– The BPO flies the SMD payloads, Upper Atmospheric Research Program payloads not flown on aircraft (which dominates that program), plus a few reimbursable payloads. 
• Balloon payloads are competitively selected via ROSES NRA’s.
• Balloon science flights are dominated (approximately  85%) by Astrophysics with the rest (approximately 15%) covering Heliophysics, Earth Science, and reimbursable flights. 
Photograph of balloon:

[Slide 140]:
Heading 1: Balloon Flight Rates: 
Bar graph of balloon flight rates displaying values for Science Fights per Year and All Flights per Year from 1997 through 2008. For more assistance with this graph, contact SARA@nasa.gov;
Approximate values as indicated:
Fiscal Year 1997: All flights 27, Science Flights 18;
Fiscal Year 1998: All flights 32, Science Flights 20;
Fiscal Year 1999: All flights 16, Science Flights 11;
Fiscal Year 2000: All flights 24, Science Flights 19;
Fiscal Year 2001: All flights 15, Science Flights 9;
Fiscal Year 2002: All flights 14, Science Flights 9;
Fiscal Year 2003: All flights 17, Science Flights 11;
Fiscal Year 2004: All flights 14, Science Flights 7;
Fiscal Year 2005: All flights 15, Science Flights 10;
Fiscal Year 2006: All flights 13, Science Flights 9;
Fiscal Year 2007: All flights 17, Science Flights 12;
Fiscal Year 2008: All flights 14, Science Flights 4;
End table.
 [Slide 141]: 
Heading 1: Status of Super-Pressure Ballooning: 
• Test of 7 MCF super-pressure balloon currently flying in Antarctica
• Test flight of 14 MCF balloon from Sweden to Canada planned for July 2009
• Super-Pressure balloons enable mid-latitude flights comparable to Antarctic flights
• They also enable 100-day (aka ULDB) flights at any latitude (trajectory modification).
Chart indicating Test and Science flights froms Calendar Years 2007 through 2013. For further assistance with this chart, contact SARA@nasa.gov.
Approximate data as indicated:
Year 2007:
Scaled Models in First and Second Quarters, Two in Fourth Quarter;
2008: 
2 MCF Test Flight in Second Quarter; 7 MCF Test Flights in Third and Fourth Quarter;
2009:
14 MCF Test Flights in Second and Fourth Quarter;
2010:
22 MCF Test Flight in Second Quarter, 22 MCF Science Flight in Fourth Quarter;
2011:
22 MCF Science Flights in Second and Fourth Quarter/First Quarter 2012;
2012:
22 MCF Science Flights in Second and Fourth Quarter/First Quarter 2013;
2013:
22 MCF Science Flights in Second Quarter;

[Slide 142]:
Heading 1: Balloon Project Budget: 
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right) Category, Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12, Fiscal Year 13; 
For the following row, values are provided in order for Category and for Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12, and Fiscal Year 13:
Row 2: Balloon Project; 22.2; 24.0; 24.6; 26.7; 28.8; 32.4; 33.2;
End table.
Table: 
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Balloon Payloads (included in Division SR&T budgets), Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, (no entries for Fiscal Years 2010 through 2013); 
For the following row, values are provided in order for Balloon Payloads and for Fiscal Year 07, Fiscal Year 08, and Fiscal Year 09:
Row 2: Heliophysics; 4; 5; 7, 
Row 3: Astrophysics: 12; 13; 15;
End table.

[Slide 143]: 
Heading 1: Astrophysics Data Centers: 
Heading 2: Science Archive Centers: 
• Archive permanently raw (level-0) and processed (level-1) data,
• Create advanced, higher-level data sets ready for science analysis:
– High Energy Astrophysics (HEASARC @ GSFC) [HEASARC and LAMBDA have merged beginning in April 2008], Swift, Fermi, Suzaku, INTEGRAL, XMM-Newton, Chandra, Beppo SAX, RXTE, ASCA, Rosat, Ginga, CGRO, EXOSAT, HEAO1-3, COS B, NuStar,
– Microwave Background (LAMBDA @ GSFC) [HEASARC and LAMBDA have merged beginning in April 2008], WMAP, COBE, IRAS, SWAS,
– Ultraviolet & Optical (MAST @ STScI): GALEX, Hubble, FUSE, EUVE, IUE, UIT, HUT, ORFEUS, WUPPE, DSS, Kepler, JWST,
– Infrared & Submillimeter (IRSA @ JPL): IRAS, 2MASS, MSX, SWAS,ISO, Spitzer, WISE, Planck, (Herschel);
• The organization of the data centers by wavelength is a natural way to curate different data sets using the shared expertise at the respective data centers, enabling successful archival research.

[Slide 144]: 
Heading 1: Astrophysics Data Centers: 
Heading 2: Astrophysics Databases:
– Astrophysics Data System (ADS @ SAO): Digital library with about 7.4M records indexed (astronomy: 1.6M; physics: 4.8M; arXiv preprints: 0.5M), provides abstracts, full papers, and literature citations. 
– Simbad (Strasbourg, SAO): Basic data, cross-identifications, and bibliography for over 4.3M objects outside the Solar system.
– NASA Extragalactic Database (NED @ JPL): Basic data across all wavelengths, cross-identifications, bibliography, and redshifts (1.4M) for over 10M objects outside the Milky Way (plus 150M objects from SDSS DR6 added in late 2008).
– NASA Star and Exoplanet Database (NStED@ JPL): Data from space-based (MOST, Corot, Kepler) and ground-based telescopes related to the identification and characterization of exoplanets.
Heading 2: Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO): 
– National facility supported by NSF and NASA to find, enable access and use astronomy data from around the world. NASA archive centers provide the core of archived data to the VAO.

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Heading 1: ADCAR Budget (Astrophysics Data Curation and Archives):
Row 1: Column headings (left to right): Data Centers & Activities, Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, Fiscal Year 12;
For each of the following rows, values are provided in order for Data Centers & Activities, and for Fiscal Year 08, Fiscal Year 09, Fiscal Year 10, Fiscal Year 11, and Fiscal Year 12:
Row 2 ADS/Simbad; $1,330.0; $1,801.4; $1,878.4; $1,959.6; $2,045.1, 
Row 3: HEASARC/Lambda; $3,205.0; $3,108.5; $3,292.2; $3,472.1; $4,361.0, 
Row 4: MAST; $1,550.0; $2,295.0; $2,339.0; $2,349.4; $2,333.6, 
Row 5: IRSA; $1,378.0; $1,378.0; $1,378.0; $2,215.5; $3,350.0, 
Row 6: NED; $1,925.0; $2,025.0; $2,175.0; $2,424.0; $2,671.0, 
Row 7: NStED; (no entry for Fiscal Year 08); $1,000.0; $1,000.0; (no entries for Fiscal Year 11 and Fiscal Year 12), 
Row 8: E/PO; (in Fiscal Year 08, E/PO was included in the Centers budget); $210.0; $220.0; $250.0; $280.0, 
Row 9: ADCAR/VAO; $917.0; $108.1; $2,076.4; $896.4; negative $32.7, 
Row 10: Total; $10,305.0; $11,926.0; $14,359.0; $13,567.0; $15,008.0, 
Bar graph displays values in preceding table for the Fiscal Years 09 through 12 for ADS/SIMBAD, HEARSARC/LAMBDA, MAST, IRSA, NED, and NSTED.

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Heading 1: Back to SMD: 

[Slide 147]:
Heading 1: SARA Web Page: 
• Lots more data at http://nasascience.nasa.gov/researchers/sara.
Bar graph for ROSES 04, 05, 06, and 07 displays number of program elements corresponding to ranges of days elapsed from due date to announcement. For further assistance with this graph, contact SARA@nasa.gov.

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Heading 1: Division Diversity in Research Practices: 
• Standing discipline solicitations or targeted solicitations
• Division roll-ups or individual discipline calls
• Community data analysis in the mission budget or in the research budget
• Selection and recompetition of mission science teams
• Role of mission science teams
• Establishment and management of data archives
• Management of suborbital programs including scheduling flights and funding payloads
• Role of interdisciplinary investigations
• Role and management of large scale modeling efforts
• Existence of other funding agencies.

[Slide 149]: 
Heading 1: SMD’s Research Management: 
• Research management is driven by several natural cycles: budget development, development of ROSES, selections:
– Requirements set in NPR 7120.8 and SMD Management Handbook;
• Annual budget cycle: 
– Review portfolio status, accomplishments, and needs,
– Strategic decisions on balance between missions and research,
– Determine overall research budget,
– See research portfolio target budgets;
• ROSES development:
– Review portfolio stats and needs,
– Determine solicitation strategy,
– Assign budgets for new awards;
• Proposal selections:
– Consider science merit (from peer review),
– Consider programmatic needs (future missions, unique opportunities, portfolio balance, high risk research).

[Slide 150]:
Heading 1: Previous NRC Recommendations: 
• NRC has provided diverse recommendations on mission enabling activities in numerous recent reports, e.g.:
– Grading NASA’s Solar System Exploration Program (2008),
– Assessment of the NASA Astrobiology Institute (2008),
– The Scientific Context for the Exploration of the Moon (2007),
– Performance Assessment of NASA’s Astrophysics Program (2007),
– Life in the Universe: An Assessment of U.S. and International Programs in Astrobiology (2003),
– All four of the decadal surveys (2001 to 2007),
– Supporting Research and Data Analysis in NASA’s Science Programs: Engines for Innovation and Synthesis (1998);
• The current study should reconsider these and highlight high priority topics that remain areas of concern.

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Heading 51: Some Observations: 
• NASA is a mission agency: 
– Drives need for targeted individual investigations rather than core support,
– “NASA funds projects not people”;
• Missions are necessary:
– A decreasing flight rate is not a stable long term strategy;
• There are too many proposal opportunities:
– Resulting in too many proposals requiring too many reviewers,
– Resulting in more proposal writing and lower selection rates without changing the total funding to the community;
• In a flat budget environment, a growing community cannot be supported:
– The appropriate amount of community funding leads to an appropriately sized community.

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Heading 1: Final Statements:
• The SMD program is opportunity rich: 
– Supports investigations from less than $20K to large missions; 
• Up to half of the budget is  (mission enabling):
– Approximately 50% of budget is mission development and mission operations,
– Mission enabling activities are embedded in every program,
– At least 25% of non-mission budget is technology development;
• The program has evolved over 50 years to a balance between mission and  mission enabling:
– The overall balance has been fairly stable over time;
• The NASA science program is the only space science program in the world with an integral and substantial R&A program: 
– It is arguably the best structured program for scientific exploration in space, of space, and from space.

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