Assessment of the NASA Applied Sciences Program 2007

NAP has published a report that examines NASA's Applied Sciences program and

1. identify strengths and weaknesses in NASA's approach to achieve its strategic objectives to realize economic and societal benefits from Earth science, information, and technology
2. determine the extent to which the partner agencies and national organizations (e.g., Climate Change Science Program) have found that their collaboration with NASA is helping them carry out their decision-support goals
3. evaluate the extent to which the program has been able to engage the broader community (e.g., private sector, academia, non-governmental organizations) in developing improved decision-support tools, and
4. assess possible issues in assuring that the transfer of NASA?s research results into decision support products maintains the scientific integrity of the data and models.

The report can be fond on this NAP Web page

Source:SDI-NorthAmerica Digest, Vol 33, Issue 3