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6.5 Management Priorities and Plans for FY97

The primary management priorities of the Boulder Facility for FY97 are two-fold. The first priority is to realign the Facility staff within the FY97 budget to meet the mandates established by the NSF EAR/IF Panel and UNAVCO Steering Committee. The second priority is to continue the transition of the Facility from the logistics support and field engineering role of the past to the more technology-driven role of the future. The Facility must continue to find creative, innovative, and cost-effective ways to support the burgeoning scientific applications of GPS in a relatively flat funding environment.

The priorities for support to the NSF GPS research community established by the UNAVCO Steering Committee subsequent to the EAR/IF Panel review were as follows:

  1. Data archiving including development of the "seamless" data archive.

  2. Support to the UNAVCO equipment pool.

  3. Support to training and technology transfer as "enabling" activities that benefit the broad GPS research community.

  4. Support to hardware and software "tool" development for supporting both episodic and continuous GPS data.

  5. Reduced field engineering support to projects in favor of the "virtual" engineer concept which combines technical consulting, training and technology transfer, and use of community-developed "tools" by investigators to support data collection.

  6. Purchase of a Digital Linear Tape System for near-line archive of campaign and continuous data in the Boulder archive as the long-term UNAVCO repository for GPS data.

  7. Elimination of development and testing activities (or deferral until the outcome of a separate proposal submission becomes known).

  8. Elimination of Community interaction activities such as meetings of the Steering Committee and Working Groups until alternate methods of operations and funding can be identified.

The organizational realignment shown in Figure 6-2 reflects these priorities and the need to make staff reductions to remain within budget guidelines. Based on subsequent discussions with the EAR/IF Program Manager, Dr. Daniel F. Weill, the Facility has attempted to retain additional flexibility in providing direct field support to NSF EAR projects by cross-training staff. Progress to date on the above priorities will be reported in the FY97 Annual Report to the NSF.

1996 Annual Report - 25 SEP 1997

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