NASA Science Changes Competition and Selection

NASA Science is changing competition and selection. Competition Model 2.0 is a new competition model. A virtual NASA Science Town Hall is linked to NASA Headquarters.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has empowered the Science Mission Directorate and directed that science delivery be accelerated.

NASA Science is changing competition and selection. Competition Model 2.0 is a new competition model that streamlines mission selection and puts science first. Proposals are science-focused.

Management of flagships is unchanged, and a Large Mission Study has been conducted for the James Webb Space Telescope.

Astro-Probes, New Frontiers, and Discovery are under an accelerated two-step competition.

Step 1 requires three things, cuts roughly half of AO response material, and provides fair consideration for principal investigators.

Step 2 is the Mission Implementation Study, which connects pre-Phase A and Phase A. NASA SMD may award the implementation study to JHU/APL.

Goddard Space Flight Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory are NASA Science Centers of Excellence.

For readers tracking the lunar industry, the update shows NASA is changing competition and selection for science missions, streamlining mission selection and accelerating two-step competitions. The facts describe the process for science-focused proposals and the implementation study, without naming a lunar mission.