# Presentation: 574845

## NSF Update

- AAAC
- 8 February 2007

## Update Topics

- FY2007 Budget Situation
- FY2008 Request
- Senior Review Status and Town Meetings

## Looking towards AAAC Annual Report

- Senior Review report accepted
- AST implementation underway
- GSMT Program restructured
- Interagency implications of Senior Review recommendations
- Plans beginning for next Decade Survey

## FY2007 Budget Request

- FY2007 Request for AST $215.11M
- 	 (FY2006 + 7.7% or $15.5M)
- NSF request shaped by American Competitiveness Initiative
- Facilities base operations budgets held level pending outcome of senior review
-  Increases for:
-  GSMT ($5M, up $3M)
-  TSIP ($4M, up $2M)
-  AODP ($1.5M, restored)
-  Physics of the Universe activities enhanced
-  Elementary Particle Physics - dark energy, dark matter studies (with Physics Division)
-  Research grants programs up overall
-  Gemini future instrumentation

## MPS by Division 

## Current FY2007 Budget Situation

- Continuing Resolution through 15 Feb
- Activities funded at FY2006 levels
- No new starts
- Post Feb 15 – Continuing Resolution for Remainder of Year at 2007 Request?
- Rules?
- New starts?

## FY 2008 Request

## Call for Reinvestment in STEM

**Call for Reinvestment in STEM**

**Increase US talent pool**
**Strengthen basic research**
**Develop, recruit & retain best/brightest**
**Ensure innovation in America**

## ACI

**ACI**

**Emphases**
**Tie fundamental discoveries to marketable technologies.**
**Facilities and instrumentation**
**World class science and engineering workforce**
**Focus on Phys Sci & Engineering**
** ****Doubles NSF, DOE-OS, NIST over 10 years**
** ****Biggest federal response since Sputnik**

## FY 2008 MPS Focus Areas

**Physical sciences at the nanoscale**
**Science beyond “Moore’s Law”  **
**Physics of the universe**
**Complex systems**
**Fundamental mathematical and statistical science**
**Sustainability**
**Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation**

## MPS by Division 

## MPS Facilities in Operation

- 1The NOAO total includes funding for instrumentation programs that build public-private partnerships.  In FY 2008, the Telescope System Instrumentation Program is funded at $5 million.  The Adaptive Optics Development Program is funded at $1.5 million, level with FY 2007 request, but moves into the disciplinary instrumentation program and so no longer appears in the NOAO budget in FY 2008.  The base NOAO/NSO program funding increases by $3.63 million over the FY 2007 request .

## Facilities in Development and Under Construction

*Design and Development:*
- DUSEL: will begin formally in FY 2008, total $6.0M, building on previous Discovery Research.
- Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope: level $5.0M.
- LSST development as planned at $1.3M
*Facilities under Construction:*
- ALMA: reflects new baseline, early operations increases to $8.2 million.
- IceCube: operations initiated at $1.5M level
- Advanced LIGO: construction begins FY 2008.

## MREFC Request

## Status of Other Interagency Efforts

- VERITAS
- NHPA consultation termination in process
- Work on Kitt Peak resumes ~  March?
- ATST
- PDR in Nov - Ready for Construction
- EIS and NHPA process continues
- NVO
- No new starts in FY2007 – FY2008 issue

## Polar Programs

## Senior Review Status

- AST has begun implementation plan
- Consult facilities managers
- Consult agency partners, CAA, AAAC,...
- AST will take implementation plan to community
- Town meeting series started in Seattle at AAS
- Other meetings
- Ann Arbor – 26 January
- Washington, DC - 16 February
- Santa Cruz - 8 March
- Princeton - 16 March
- Atlanta - 23 March
- Tucson – 5 April
- Welcome constructive comments to email address:
- _[astsenior-review@nsf.gov](mailto:astsenior-review@nsf.gov)_

## Developing an NSF Response and Implementation Plan

- AST is working closely with facilities to understand implications of recommendations as we consider possible implementation
- NSF is active in encouraging and engaging in discussion with other possible partners in facility operations, including international partners and other funding agencies.
- AST is working with the community and NOAO to determine where re-investment in existing OIR facilities should occur and in the development of an integrated and coordinated “System”

## Developing an NSF Response and Implementation Plan

- AST is undertaking detailed cost reviews of each observatory necessary to understand where cost reductions can be made
- Understand operational costs, appropriate staffing levels
- Consider other operational and business models
- Hope to complete within next 6 to 8 months
- Explore costs and legal issues associated with recommendations e.g. environmental, deconstruction, divestiture, termination costs – engaging outside studies over the next year
- Many changes will take several years to implement – Budget implications in FY2009

## Cost Reviews

- We have a 50 year tradition of operations that we must examine, both for now and for future facilities
- Can current level of service be delivered for less?
- Some opinions based on university-scale ops
- Hidden subsidies, etc.
- We all must understand the costs thoroughly
- NSF, facilities, and community must look at different service models
- Changes similar to those at NAIC may be necessary at all AST facilities
-  NSF will support efforts towards implementation of recommendations by managing organizations.

## Senior Review Recommendations	  Implications at this meeting		

- GSMT program restructuring
- Arecibo
- VLBA
- Gong ++

## Community Input is Essential

- AST Web site for the Senior Review:
- 	(_[http://www.](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[nsf](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[.](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[gov](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[/mps/](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[ast](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[/](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[ast](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[_senior_review.](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[jsp](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[)](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__ _
- The Senior Review Report:
- 	(_[http://www.](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[nsf](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[.](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[gov](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[/mps/](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[ast](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[/](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[seniorreview](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[/](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[sr](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[-report.](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[pdf](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)__[)](http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/ast_senior_review.jsp)_
- Email input _[astsenior](mailto:astseniorreview@nsf.gov)__[-review@](mailto:astseniorreview@nsf.gov)__[nsf](mailto:astseniorreview@nsf.gov)__[.](mailto:astseniorreview@nsf.gov)__[gov](mailto:astseniorreview@nsf.gov)_
- Decade Survey planning input _Astro2010@nas.edu_

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