The Office of Earth Science is awarding 23 proposals, for a total dollar value over a three year period of approximately $14.5 million through the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

In addition, nine proposals have been tentatively accepted. Contract awards for tentatively selected proposals are dependant on funding availability. The minimum period of performance is twelve months. The total proposed period of performance should not exceed 36 months.

"The selection of these proposals represent our commitment to the development of new, cutting-edge technologies that will help us to understand our complex global environment and provide this knowledge to future generations for informed decision making," said Dr. Ghassem Asrar, Associate Administrator for Earth Science, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

The ATIP is designed to bring instrument, platform and information system components and subsystems to a demonstrated technology readiness level in order to allow participation in the future integration into an on-going technology development program, such as the Earth Science Enterprise Instrument Incubator Program, the New Millennium Programs, and future Earth Science missions.

This is consistent with and supportive of NASA's new way of doing business by developing key and critical technologies the Agency needs to reduce the development cycle of missions from 5 to 7 years down to 2 to 3 years.

The objective of the ATIP is to develop and demonstrate component and subsystem technologies which reduce the risk, cost, size, and development time of three areas of importance to the Earth Science Enterprise: Earth observing instruments, platforms and information systems and enable new Earth observation measurements.

A major objective of NASA's Earth Science technology program is to implement the program with affordable access to space leading to greater program flexibility.

A major part of this enabling process is the rapid development of small, low cost remote sensing instruments. NASA's Earth Science program expects to operate in a constrained budget environment for the foreseeable future.

Technological innovation in reducing the size, mass and/or power requirements for the current instruments and development of future remote sensing instruments are essential to the future success of the enterprise. ATIP is part of that program.

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