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PAPERBACK list:$26.00 Web:$23.40 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Free Resources Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Display this book on your site! Related Titles Space Studies Board Annual Report 2003 Space Studies Board Annual Report 2005 Other Related Titles Reducing the Costs of Space Science Research Missions: Proceedings of a Workshop (1997) Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (CETS) Space Studies Board (SSB) Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Page 15   E-mail  Facebook  Digg  Stumble  Twitter More The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. 4 Concluding Remarks The conclusions, reached by each group independently, were remarkably similar. More important, the conclusions indicate that future reductions in space mission costs might be achieved through fundamental changes in policy and decision processes. The major points of each section are summarized in Table 2-1. There was a consensus that agencies involved in space missions now have to concentrate on how their policies for requirements development, mission definition, and system acquisition affect mission costs. The impressive cost reductions in the past several years are largely a result of agencies focusing on engineering or adopting technology that was already in the research pipeline. Progress in the next several years must come from changes in how agencies make basic decisions and conduct operations. These changes have the potential for even greater cost savings, but most participants at this workshop appreciate the difficulties associated with agency-level changes. Although advanced technology has enabled smaller, faster, cheaper programs in the recent past at both NASA and DOD, all of the working groups agreed that orders-of-magnitude cost savings do not result simply from better technologies. Cost reductions result from a combination of well defined policy, thoughtful rationales for requirements, well developed program planning, facilitation of using advanced technology, and appropriate procurement strategies. Page 15 FRONT MATTER (R1-R10) 1: INTRODUCTION (1-1) 2: APPROACH (2-6) 3: SUMMARY OF FINDINGS (7-14) 4: CONCLUDING REMARKS (15-15) 5: REFERENCES (16-16) APPENDIX A: STATEMENT OF TASK (17-19) APPENDIX B: PARTICIPANTS (20-21) APPENDIX C: PAPERS SUBMITTED BY OPENING SESSION PRESENTERS (22-59) APPENDIX D: SUMMARY OF WORKING GROUP REPORTS (60-68) APPENDIX E: SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (69-73)

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