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Suggested Citation:"C List of Presenters to the Committee." National Research Council. 2009. Fostering Visions for the Future: A Review of the NASA Institute of Advanced Concepts. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12702.
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C List of Presenters to the Committee Marc Allen, Assistant Associate Administrator for Strategy, Policy and International, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters Dennis Bushnell, Chief Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center Robert Cassanova, former Director, NIAC A.C. Charania, President, SpaceWorks Commercial, NIAC grantee Ray Colladay, Chair, Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, NRC; formerly Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Associate Administrator of NASA, and President of Lockheed Astronautics Murray Hirschbein, NASA (retired) Robert Hoyt, Tethers, Inc., NIAC grantee Christopher Moore, Program Executive, Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters Dava Newman, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NIAC grantee Dick Obermann, Staff Director, House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Eric Rice, CEO and Chair, Orbitec, NIAC grantee Robert Whitehead, former Associate Administrator for Aeronautics and Space Transportation Technology, NASA, former member of NIAC Science Council Robert Winglee, University of Washington, NIAC grantee 50

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The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) was formed in 1998 to provide an independent source of advanced aeronautical and space concepts that could dramatically impact how NASA develops and conducts its missions. Until the program's termination in August 2007, NIAC provided an independent open forum, a high-level point of entry to NASA for an external community of innovators, and an external capability for analysis and definition of advanced aeronautics and space concepts to complement the advanced concept activities conducted within NASA. Throughout its 9-year existence, NIAC inspired an atmosphere for innovation that stretched the imagination and encouraged creativity.

As requested by Congress, this volume reviews the effectiveness of NIAC and makes recommendations concerning the importance of such a program to NASA and to the nation as a whole, including the proper role of NASA and the federal government in fostering scientific innovation and creativity and in developing advanced concepts for future systems. Key findings and recommendations include that in order to achieve its mission, NASA must have, and is currently lacking, a mechanism to investigate visionary, far-reaching advanced concepts. Therefore, a NIAC-like entity should be reestablished to fill this gap.

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