STATUS REPORT Date Released:
Wednesday, April 11, 2001
Source: NASA HQ
Source; NASA Comptroller.
FY01 Appropriation Earmarks NASA $ 350.9 million Total
Human Space-Flight
$3.0 million - Bioastronautics Facility design
SPACE SCIENCE $34.5 million
$2.5 million - Hubble telescope project to initiate a Composites Technology Institute in Bridgeport, WV
$2.5 million - Bishop Museum/Mauna Kea Astronomy Education Center
$1 million - Chabot Observatory & Science Center, Oakland CA
$4 million - Green Bank Radio Astronomy Observatory visitor center
$2 million - Equipment for SC State Museum's Observatory, Planetarium &
Theater
$8 million - U HI infrastructure needs of the Mauna Kea Education Center
$3.5 million - Center of life in extreme thermal environments at Montana State U in Bozeman
$1.5 million - Ohio Wesleyan University for infrastructureneeds.
$1.5 million- Center for Space Sciences at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.
$8 million - Space Solar Power
BIOLOGICAL & PHYS RESEARCH $24.5 million
$15 million - Infrastructure needs for Life Science building @ U
Missouri-Columbia
$3 million - Donald Danforth Plant Science Center's Modern
Genetic's project
$5 million - Space Radiation program at Loma Linda
University Hospital.
$1 million - EARTH University and the University of
Alabama in Birmingham to research Chagas disease.
$0.5 million - ongoing research in the area of disease monitoring and diagnosis through the use of medical intelligence for the manned spaceflight effort.
EARTH SCIENCE $136.9 million
$1.5 million - Studies initiating Landsat --7
follow-on commercial data purchase
$2 million - Phase A/B studies &
preliminary ATD work to initiate global precipitation mission
identified by the Nat'l Academy
$2 million - Phase A/B studies &
preliminary ATD work on the global earthquake satellite
$1.5 million - studies
on next generation earth science data information system, the
"new DIS"
$35.6 million - for studies and advanced technology
development for the NPOESS preparatory project of which $4M shall be
allocated for the development of high speed data processing and
algorithm validation processes that maximize prior year investments
in this area
$35 million - EOSDIS Core System (ECS) for total program of $115M
$20 million - continue commercial data purchases to meet ES & application
needs
$3 million - to enhance U of S. Mississippi's research capability in the
use of remotely sensed data for coastal zone mgmt
$1 million - Carbon cycle
remote sensing technology program for KARS Regional Earth Sciences
Application Center at U Kansas
$1.5 million - U North Dakota to support Upper
Midwest Aerospace Consortium
$1.5 million - Topographic sensor measurement
efforts in Alaska
$2 million - Remote Ocean sensing research &
measurements in areas of the Bering Sea & the northernmost
Pacific Ocean.
$1 million - Pipelines Project @ Iowa State U/Southern U -
Baton Rouge
$3.00NASA Intern'l EOS Natural Resource Training Center @
U Montana, Missoula, MT
$0.5 million - Temporal Landscape Change Research
Program to establish a regional baseline monitoring program
$0.5 million - Operations of the applications center for remote sensing at
Fulton-Montgomery Community College, Johnston, NY
$1 million -Center for
Earth Observing and Space Research at George Mason University.
$5 million - NASA's Regional
Applications Center for the Northeast.
$2.5 million - U.S. portion of the joint
U.S./Italian satellite development program to remotely observe forest
fires.
$0.45 million - continuation of application remote sensing to forestry at
the State University of New York, College of Environmental Sciences
and Forestry.
$4 million - continuation of programs at the American Museum of
Natural History.
$1 million - Advanced Tropical Remote Sensing Center of the
National Center for Tropical Remote Sensing Applications and
Resources at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
$8.8 million - Institute for Software Research, for the following activities:
$5M for development and construction of research facilities; $2.3M
for the development of a Goddard Institute for Systems, Software and
Technology Research (GISSTR) in cooperation with the Goddard Space
Flight Center's Systems, Technology and Advanced Concepts (STAAC)
organization; and $1.5M for a microcomputer clustering and data
throughput/visualization algorithm research initiative.
$0.5 million - continued
development of nickel metal hydride battery technology.
$2 million - initiate
a global wind profile commercial data purchase consistent with the
science objectives identified in the National Academy of Sciences
study.
Aerospace Technology $86.35 million
$13 million - UEET, above $35M request
$10 million - Propulsion Research
Laboratory to be located at NASA's Center of Excellence for Space
Propulsion at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
$1 million - MSE-Technology
Applications/Western Environmental Tech Office, Butte Montana
$1 million - U
Akron for nanotechnology research
$0.25 million - Oklahoma Aeronautics &
Space Commission for sounding rockets for Oklahoma Space & Tech
Applied Research program
$1 million - Montana State U for TechLink program
$2 million - Montana State University, Bozeman for research in
advanced optoelectronic materials.
$1.5 million - NTTC (for a total of $7.3M)
$2 million - development of eyetracking technology and applications research.
$0.5 million - for evaluation and design of Lithium-Ion batteries for use on
space shuttles
$3 million - NASA-Illinois Technology Commercialization Center
at DuPage County Research Park.
$3 million - University of New Orleans
Composites Research Center for Excellence at Michoud, Louisiana.
$5 million - Rotocraft Research and Technology base programs.
$6 million - expand the
Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program in the states of Florida,
New Mexico, New York, and Texas
$4 million - deployment of multilateration and
Mode-S based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast sensors for
the Helicopter In-Flight Tracking System.
$1.8 million - augment deployment of
an ATIDS multilateration sensor and surveillance server for the
Airport Surface Management 1.60continued development of the Dynamic
Runway Occupancy Measurement System integration with the Multistatic
Dependent Surveillance System and SensorBahn server.
$1 million - remote
sensing SAID research program at Syracuse University.
$1 million - Agile
Collaboration Environments for Systems Synthesis in Engineering
Education.
$1 million - Enhanced Vision Systems development and testing.
$2 million - continue work on SOCRATES.
$1 million - Center for Emerging Technologies
at Stony Brook, State University of New York.
$1 million - Garrett Morgan
Commercialization Initiative in Ohio.
$6.5 million - Institute for Software Research, for the following
activities: $2M to perform fundamental research of propellantless
space propulsion with NASA's Center of Excellence for Space
Propulsion, including the analysis of prototype radio frequency
momentum sources and the use of automated tensor algorithms to
simulate and evaluate prototype drive mechanisms; $3.5M to continue
the Self-Adaptive Vehicular Equipment (SAVE) initiative; and $1.0M to
continue the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics (BPP) program.
$7.5 million - National Space Science and Technology Center for infrastructure
needs.
$2 million - Earth Alert project at the Goddard Space Flight Center.
$0.5 million - National Aviation Hall of Fame for development of exhibits.
$5 million - STEP-AirSEDS tether propulsion program 1.00Creation of Virtual
Collaboration Center to be established at the North Carolina
GigaPoP (added via 10/27/00 letter to NASA Administrator)
$0.2 million - A technology transfer program to be executed through Rural
Enterprise, Inc (added via 10/27/00 letter to NASA
Administrator)
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS $35 million
$5.4 million - EPSCoR (for a total of $10M)
$9.1 million - Minority university research
& education activities (for a total of $55M)
$2 million - Lewis &
Clark Rediscovery Web Tech project through partnership between U
Idaho, Wheeling Jesuit College & U Montana
$2 million - University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee to implement the Wisconsin Initiative for Math,
Science, and Technology
$2 million - Jason Foundation Field Museum for
development of "Sue" exhibit
$1 million - Implementation of
statewide learning program for Challenger Learning Center in Kenai,
Ak
$1 million - NASA Center of Excellence in Mathematics, Science and
Technology at Texas College in Tyler, Texas.
$3 million - continued academic
and infrastructure needs related to the computer sciences,
mathematics and physics building at the University of Redlands,
Redlands, California.
$1 million - equipment needs at the University of San
Diego Science and Education Outreach Center.
$0.5 million - Science,
Engineering, Math and Aerospace Academy programs at Central Arizona
College.
$1 million - Science Facilities Initiative at Heidelberg College in
Ohio.
$1 million - NASA Glenn "Gateway to the Future: Ohio Pilot" project.
$1.5 million - Santa Ana College Space Education Center in California.
$0.5 million - Hands-on interactive science education facility at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
$1 million - Science Learning Center in
Hammond, Indiana.
$1 million - Environmental Sciences Learning Center (part of
the California Science Center) in Los Angeles, California.
$0.5 million - Aerospace Education Center in Cleveland, Ohio as a national hub
for the SEMAA program.
$1 million - Carl Sagan Discover Science Center at the
Children's hospital at Montefiore Medical Center to implement the
educational programming for this science learning project.
CoF$28.5 million
$18 million - E-Complex upgrades & relocation
expenses for Space Launch Initiative
$10.5 million - propulsion test operations
building and for upgrades to the East/West access road at Stennis
R&PM$2.202 million
year test of the concept. NASA is
directed to enter into a fractional ownership contract
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