Recently completed
A committee-supported project or activity that has been completed and for which output dissemination has begun. Its committee has been disbanded and closeout procedures are underway.
This study will review the critical facilities, workforce, and technology needed to achieve NASA’s long-term strategic goals and mission objectives.
The Committee will consider NASA's mission objectives and strategic goals, identify the critical facilities, workforce, and technologies needed to accomplish these goals, and provide prioritized recommendations on actions to improve or support these critical capabilities. The final report will recommend high-level actions to bolster the workforce, infrastructure, and technological capabilities that enable transformational achievements at NASA, including those that could benefit from cross-directorate collaboration.
Featured publication
Consensus
·2024
Since its formation more than 60 years ago, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has served as a global leader in science, aeronautics, and exploration, propelled technological innovation, and inspired youth to pursue careers in science and engineering, while often accomplishing...
View details
Description
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) will appoint an ad hoc committee to conduct a high-level review of NASA’s workforce, infrastructure, and technological capabilities that are most relevant to the strategic goals specified in NASA’s 2022 Strategic Plan and other key guiding documents. The committee will consider emerging technologies in selected engineering and science disciplines as well as critical facilities needed, and workforce skills required to perform and support the work of the mission directorates, both now and in the future.
The committee will pay particular attention to critical areas of NASA-wide interest that cross mission directorate boundaries, and the critical mission support underpinning mission accomplishments. The committee will make prioritized recommendations on actions needed to better align NASA’s engineering and science workforce, skills, physical and systems infrastructure, and technologies with NASA’s mission objectives and strategic goals. Recommendations will address improvements and additions to modeling capabilities, critical infrastructure, test facilities, and support required to perform the work.
The scope of the study will include all NASA mission directorates, including the Mission Support Directorate.
Collaborators
Committee
Chair
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Committee Membership Roster Comments
Jaiwon Shin - resigned 8/8/2023
Sponsors
NASA
Staff
Gaybrielle Holbert
Major units and sub-units
Center for Advancing Science and Technology
Lead
Aeronautics, Space, and Astronomy Program Area
Lead
