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A.1 Letter on NASA Advanced Technology Development
A.1 Letter on NASA Advanced Technology Development
Pages 75-76
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I am writing to reaffirm the National Research Council's interest in NASA's technology research and development efforts and to share our view of the importance of long-term advanced technology research. As you have often stated, NASA should be a technology development agency, and innovative technologies are key to achieving successful science missions at affordable costs.
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Tight budgets make it more important than ever that a regular and rigorous review process be put in place to identify those projects that ought to be terminated." Regarding the needfor a centralfocus for technology, Improving NASA 's Technology for Space Science noted, "In spite of its pervasiveness and importance to NASA, there is no organized central control, information center, or focal point for all of NASA's technology development efforts, which now are spread throughout the agency."~3) It recommended, "The NASA Administrator should act to establish a coordinating position with the clear responsibility to ensure cooperation between technology development efforts within different parts of NASA.
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