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Building a Better NASA Workforce

Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration

Committee on Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration

Space Studies Board

Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board

Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

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THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

Advisers to the Nation on Science, Engineering, and Medicine


The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government on scientific and technical matters. Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone is president of the National Academy of Sciences.


The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers. It is autonomous in its administration and in the selection of its members, sharing with the National Academy of Sciences the responsibility for advising the federal government. The National Academy of Engineering also sponsors engineering programs aimed at meeting national needs, encourages education and research, and recognizes the superior achievements of engineers. Dr. Charles M. Vest is president of the National Academy of Engineering.


The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public. The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the National Academy of Sciences by its congressional charter to be an adviser to the federal government and, upon its own initiative, to identify issues of medical care, research, and education. Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg is president of the Institute of Medicine.


The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy’s purposes of furthering knowledge and advising the federal government. Functioning in accordance with general policies determined by the Academy, the Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone and Dr. Charles M. Vest are chair and vice chair, respectively, of the National Research Council.


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OTHER REPORTS OF THE SPACE STUDIES BOARD

Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond (2007)

Exploring Organic Environments in the Solar System (SSB with the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, 2007)

A Performance Assessment of NASA’s Astrophysics Program (SSB with the Board on Physics and Astronomy, 2007)


An Assessment of Balance in NASA’s Science Programs (2006)

Assessment of NASA’s Mars Architecture 2007-2016 (2006)

Assessment of Planetary Protection Requirements for Venus Missions: Letter Report (2006)

Distributed Arrays of Small Instruments for Solar-Terrestrial Research: Report of a Workshop (2006)

Issues Affecting the Future of the U.S. Space Science and Engineering Workforce: Interim Report (SSB with the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board [ASEB], 2006)

Review of NASA’s 2006 Draft Science Plan: Letter Report (2006)

The Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon—Interim Report (2006)

Space Radiation Hazards and the Vision for Space Exploration (2006)


The Astrophysical Context of Life (SSB with the Board on Life Sciences, 2005)

Earth Science and Applications from Space: Urgent Needs and Opportunities to Serve the Nation (2005)

Extending the Effective Lifetimes of Earth Observing Research Missions (2005)

Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars (2005)

Principal-Investigator-Led Missions in the Space Sciences (2005)

Priorities in Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion (SSB with ASEB, 2005)

Review of Goals and Plans for NASA’s Space and Earth Sciences (2005)

Review of NASA Plans for the International Space Station (2005)

Science in NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration (2005)


Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope: Final Report (SSB with ASEB, 2004)

Exploration of the Outer Heliosphere and the Local Interstellar Medium: A Workshop Report (2004)

Issues and Opportunities Regarding the U.S. Space Program: A Summary Report of a Workshop on National Space Policy (SSB with ASEB, 2004)

Plasma Physics of the Local Cosmos (2004)

Review of Science Requirements for the Terrestrial Planet Finder: Letter Report (2004)

Understanding the Sun and Solar System Plasmas: Future Directions in Solar and Space Physics (2004)

Utilization of Operational Environmental Satellite Data: Ensuring Readiness for 2010 and Beyond (SSB with ASEB and the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate [BASC], 2004)


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COMMITTEE ON MEETING THE WORKFORCE NEEDS FOR THE NATIONAL VISION FOR SPACE EXPLORATION

DAVID C. BLACK,

Universities Space Research Association,

Co-chair

DANIEL E. HASTINGS,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Co-chair

BURT S. BARNOW,

Johns Hopkins University

JOHN W. DOUGLASS,

Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc.

RAY M. HAYNES,

Northrop Grumman Space Technology

MARGARET G. KIVELSON,

University of California, Los Angeles

WILLIAM POMERANTZ,

X PRIZE Foundation

JOSEPH H. ROTHENBERG,

Universal Space Network

KATHRYN C. THORNTON,

University of Virginia

Staff

DWAYNE A. DAY, Study Director

JOSEPH K. ALEXANDER, Senior Staff Officer

CATHERINE A. GRUBER, Assistant Editor

CELESTE NAYLOR, Senior Program Assistant

VICTORIA SWISHER, Research Associate

EMILY McNEIL, 2006 Winter Space Policy Intern

MATTHEW BROUGHTON, 2005 Summer Space Policy Intern

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SPACE STUDIES BOARD

LENNARD A. FISK,

University of Michigan,

Chair

A. THOMAS YOUNG,

Lockheed Martin Corporation (retired),

Vice Chair

SPIRO K. ANTIOCHOS,

Naval Research Laboratory

DANIEL N. BAKER,

University of Colorado

STEVEN J. BATTEL,

Battel Engineering

CHARLES L. BENNETT,

Johns Hopkins University

JUDITH A. CURRY,

Georgia Institute of Technology

JACK D. FARMER,

Arizona State University

JACK D. FELLOWS,

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

JACQUELINE N. HEWITT,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TAMARA E. JERNIGAN,

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

KLAUS KEIL,

University of Hawaii

BERRIEN MOORE III,

University of New Hampshire

KENNETH H. NEALSON,

University of Southern California

NORMAN P. NEUREITER,

American Association for the Advancement of Science

SUZANNE OPARIL,

University of Alabama, Birmingham

JAMES PAWELCZYK,

Pennsylvania State University

RONALD F. PROBSTEIN,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

HARVEY D. TANANBAUM,

Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

RICHARD H. TRULY,

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (retired)

JOSEPH F. VEVERKA,

Cornell University

WARREN M. WASHINGTON,

National Center for Atmospheric Research

GARY P. ZANK,

University of California, Riverside

MARCIA S. SMITH, Director

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AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ENGINEERING BOARD

RAYMOND S. COLLADAY,

Lockheed Martin Astronautics (retired),

Chair

CHARLES F. BOLDEN, JR., Independent Consultant,

Houston, Texas

ANTHONY J. BRODERICK, Aviation Safety Consultant,

Catlett, Virginia

INDERJIT CHOPRA,

University of Maryland

ROBERT L. CRIPPEN,

Thiokol Propulsion (retired)

JOHN HANSMAN,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

PRESTON HENNE,

Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation

JOHN M. KLINEBERG,

Space Systems/Loral (retired)

ILAN M. KROO,

Stanford University

IVETT LEYVA,

Air Force Research Laboratory

MOLLY K. MACAULEY,

Resources for the Future

AMY R. PRITCHETT,

Georgia Institute of Technology

DEBRA L. RUB-ZENKO,

The Boeing Company

RAY VALEIKA,

Delta Airlines, Inc. (retired)

ROBERT S. WALKER,

Wexler and Walker Public Policy Associates

MARCIA S. SMITH, Director

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Preface

In January 2004 President George W. Bush announced a new civilian space policy that soon became known as the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE).1 The VSE has several cornerstones, including retiring the Space Shuttle by 2010, completing the International Space Station, and establishing a broad goal for human exploration of the Moon and Mars. The first steps in the new human exploration phase involve developing a spacecraft for transporting humans into space, developing a lunar lander spacecraft, and building new launch vehicles for both spacecraft. This new space policy poses many challenges for NASA, among them the agency’s ability to manage and conduct its programs so as to achieve its major goals within a constrained budget environment. A significant question is whether the agency has a workforce with an effective mix of skills and personnel, or adequate mechanisms for acquiring them.

On September 30, 2005, NASA’s Associate Administrator for Program Analysis and Evaluation, Scott Pace, sent a letter to Lennard Fisk, chair of the National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Space Studies Board (SSB), requesting that the SSB and the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB) help assess the current and future supply of highly skilled U.S. aerospace professionals and identify realistic, actionable solutions to meeting any identified needs (see Appendix A). Formed under the auspices of the SSB and ASEB in late 2005, the NRC Committee on Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration was asked to study the long-range science and technology workforce needs of NASA and the larger aerospace science and engineering community to achieve the Vision for Space Exploration; identify obstacles to filling those needs; and recommend specific actions for consideration by government, academia, and industry (see Appendix B for the full statement of task). The committee comprised members from the traditional U.S. science and technology triangle of government, academia, and industry as well as members from the emerging entrepreneurial (the so-called “alt-space” or “new space”) community and from outside the space community (see Appendix D).

On January 23-25, 2006, the committee held a workshop to identify the important factors affecting NASA’s future workforce and its capacity to implement the VSE. The specific goal of the workshop was to engage representatives of government, academia, and industry in discussing the issues to be explored by the committee in preparing its final report and to identify the available data on NASA’s workforce. The committee met again on February 22-23, 2006, to gather additional information regarding NASA’s analysis of current and future workforce

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The Vision for Space Exploration initiative was announced by President George W. Bush on January 14, 2004, and is outlined in The Vision for Space Exploration, NP-2004-01-334-HQ, NASA, Washington, D.C., 2004.

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competencies and to hear from representatives from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the aerospace industry. A third committee meeting, on May 8-9, 2006, provided an opportunity for the committee to have further discussions with NASA officials and to interact with representatives from university science and engineering departments and from the American Society for Engineering Education. A fourth meeting was held on September 27-29 to enable the committee to deliberate and write its final report.

In late April 2006 the committee released an interim report, Issues Affecting the Future of the U.S. Space Science and Engineering Workforce: Interim Report, which presented the committee’s summary of highlights of the January 2006 workshop and provided initial, but incomplete, findings with respect to some aspects of the study charge.2

This final report incorporates the findings and recommendations from the interim report, and it presents the committee’s final conclusions on all aspects of the study. Tasks 1 and 2 (see Appendix B), which address the demographics of the workforce, are discussed in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 examines NASA’s and the committee’s analyses of skills that will be needed in the future in NASA and in industry (tasks 3 and 5), and Chapter 5 addresses the roles of and needs in academia (task 4). Chapter 4 responds to Task 6 regarding workforce gaps and obstacles, and it discusses specific actions needed to address a particularly pressing need in NASA and industry for highly skilled systems engineers and program/project managers. Relevant recommendations for actions by the government, industry, and academia accompany the discussions in each of the four main chapters.

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National Research Council, Issues Affecting the Future of the U.S. Space Science and Engineering Workforce: Interim Report, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2006. NASA responded to this interim report in a meeting, and written materials and comments presented to the committee were incorporated into this final report.

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Acknowledgments

The committee thanks Kathleen Hyland of Johns Hopkins University, who helped prepare the assessment of prior Bureau of Labor Statistics employment projections discussed in Chapter 2, and the Aerospace Industries Association’s Space Council, which helped provide the industry perspectives that are also discussed in Chapter 2. The committee also thanks the numerous NASA staff members who provided considerable information about NASA’s workforce assessments, plans, and programs.

This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:


A. Dwight Abbott, Aerospace Corporation (retired),

Aaron Cohen, Texas A&M University (professor emeritus),

Ron Hira, Rochester Institute of Technology,

Martin H. Israel, Washington University, St. Louis,

T.K. Mattingly, U.S. Navy (retired),

Michael Meyer, Georgia Institute of Technology,

Thomas S. Moorman, Jr., U.S. Air Force (retired),

Jeffrey D. Rosendhal, NASA (retired), and

Paula Stephan, Georgia State University.

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations, nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Lester A. Hoel, University of Virginia. Appointed by the National Research Council, he was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution.

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The Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) announced by President George W. Bush in 2004 sets NASA and the nation on a bold path to return to the Moon and one day put a human on Mars. The long-term endeavor represented by the VSE is, however, subject to the constraints imposed by annual funding. Given that the VSE may take tens of years to implement, a significant issue is whether NASA and the United States will have the workforce needed to achieve that vision. The issues range from short-term concerns about the current workforce's skills for overseeing the development of new spacecraft and launch vehicles for the VSE to long-term issues regarding the training, recruiting, and retaining of scientists and engineers in-house as well as in industry and academia.

Asked to explore science and technology (S&T) workforce needs to achieve the nation's long-term space exploration, the Committee on Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration concluded that in the short term, NASA does not possess the requisite in-house personnel with the experience in human spaceflight systems development needed to implement the VSE. But the committee acknowledges that NASA is cognizant of this fact and has taken steps to correct it, primarily by seeking to recruit highly skilled personnel from outside NASA, including persons from industry and retirees.

For the long term, NASA has to ask if it is attracting and developing the talent it will need to execute a mission to return to the Moon, and the agency must identify what it needs to do to attract and develop a world-class workforce to explore other worlds. A major challenge for NASA is reorienting its human spaceflight workforce from the operation of current vehicles to the development of new vehicles at least throughout the next decade, as well as starting operations with new rockets and new spacecraft.

The committee emphasizes further that when evaluating its future workforce requirements, NASA has to consider not only programs for students, but also training opportunities for its current employees. NASA's training programs at the agency's various field centers, which are focused on NASA's civil service talent, require support to prevent the agency's internal skill base from withering. Furthermore, NASA faces the risk that, if it fails to nurture its own internal workforce, skilled personnel will be attracted to other government agencies and industry. Building a Better NASA Workforce: Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration explains the findings and recommendations of the committee.

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