ROSES 2023: A.58 Advanced Information Systems Technology
Funding Agency:
- NASA
NASA's Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Program identifies, develops, and supports adoption of software and information systems, as well as novel computer science technologies expected to be needed by the Earth Science Division in the 5-10-year timeframe, as described in ROSES-2023 A.1 Earth Science Research Overview. Technology innovation, Earth observation missions, and the data from those missions serve as the foundation for growing scientific understanding of the Earth’s systems, improve predictive capabilities, and deliver actionable science and applications to inform decisions. Within that end-to-end strategy, the AIST Program focuses on advanced technologies and innovative concepts with three main objectives: O1. Enable new observation measurements and new observing systems design and operations through intelligent, timely, dynamic, and coordinated distributed sensing. O2. Enable agile science analyses that fully utilize the many diverse observations using advanced analytic tools, visualizations, and computing environments, and that interact seamlessly with relevant observing systems to request additional observations and improve the final results. O3. Enable the development of integrated Earth Science frameworks that represent the Earth with state-of-the-art models (Earth system models and others), timely and relevant observations, and analytic tools. This thrust will provide technology for enabling near- and long-term policy and science decisions by delivering actionable science and information. AIST objectives aim at optimizing Earth Science mission return – Novel Observing Strategies (NOS) from an observation point of view and Analytic Collaborative Frameworks (ACF)/Earth System Digital Twins (ESDT) from an information analysis and utilization point of view. The assets and data accessed and utilized in these systems may come from NASA and non-NASA sources, as described in the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) 2017 Earth Science Decadal Survey.
This program element is part of Appendix A; therefore, if not addressed in this program element, the default rules in ROSES-2023 A.1 Earth Science Research Overview apply to Step-2 proposals. Similarly, as Appendix A is part of ROSES, if not addressed in this program element or in A.1, the default rules in the ROSES-2023 Summary of Solicitation apply. Finally, if not addressed in the documents above, default Agency rules in the 2023 NASA Proposer's Guide (formerly the Guidebook for Proposers) apply. This element solicits proposals that fall into one (and only one) of three distinct subelement topic areas: 1) Early-Stage Technology (EST), or 2) Advanced and Emerging Technology (AET), or 3) Demonstrations and Prototypes (D&P).
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Step-2 proposals are due April 4, 2024.
Jacqueline Le Moigne
Earth Science Technology Office Science Mission Directorate NASA Headquarters Washington, DC 20546-0001 Email: HQ-AIST@mail.nasa.gov
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