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Appendix A: FY 1998 Congressional Appropriations Report Language
Appendix A: FY 1998 Congressional Appropriations Report Language
Pages 37-38
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION The Committee is concerned about the absence of competition in the selection of fielding recipients for the new millennium, advanced space technology, and portions of the supporting research and technology program elements. The Committee believes that these funds, whether awarded intramurally or extramurally, must be fully competed through broad announcements of opportunity with selection by external peer review panels, rather than at the discretion of agency program managers.
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funds. To achieve this end, commencing with fiscal year ~ 998 and continuing in each year thereafter, NASA should consolidate all space science ATD activities into an easily accessible consolidated budget line item and award not less than 75 percent of these funds through broadly distributed announcements of opportunity that solicit proposals from all categories of organizations, including educational institutions, industry, nonprofit institutions, NASA Centers, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and other Government agencies, and that allow partnerships among any combination of these entities, with evaluation, prioritization, and recommendations made by external peer review panels, consistent with the recommendations contained in the 1 995 National Academy of Sciences report on managing the space sciences.
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