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More Emphasis Needed on Data Analysis Phase of Space Science
Programs. PSAD--77-114; B-133394. June 27, 1977. 17 pp. + 4
appendices (24 pp.).
Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Issue Area: Science and Technology: Management and oversight of
Programs (2004) ; Federal Procurement of Goods and Services
(1900).
Contact: Procurement and Systems Acquisition Div.
Budget Function: General Science, Space, and Technology: Space
Science, Applications, and Technology (254).
Organizaticn Concerned: National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Science and
Technology; Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation; Congress.
Authority: National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (P.L.
85-568; 72 Stat. 426).
Scientific data acquired from the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration's (NASA's) space programs are not
always promptly made available to the scientific community for
further analysis and maximum benefit to the United States.
Findings/Conclusions: The National Space Science Data Center has
problems acquiring data promptly because some principal
investigators fail to submit their data. Factors -.ontributing to
late data or data not received are: contracts and written
agreements which required investigators to submit data were not
enforced; too little money and time were available to
investigators for data analysis; and the Center was underst&ffed
in relation to its mission. Recommendations: The Administrator
of NASA should direct the Associate Alministrator for Space
Science to enforce the contracts and in-house agreements
requiring investigators to submit data to the Center in order to
maintain a schedule showing when investigators are expected to
submit data from their experiments and to set up a system
showing which experiments should receive priority attention at
the Center. The Administrator should develop more realistic
estimates of funds and time necessary to adequately support
investig,,tors' data analysis and assign certain data acquisition
duties to project scientists. When evaluating VASA's program
content and budget requests, the Congress should examine the
adequacy of NASA's aliocation of resources between gathering
space science data and analyzing it. (Author/SC)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaackl0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)