FY16 Planetary ScienceGPRAMA Performance

AssessmentJennifer Kearns

NASA HQ

GPRAMA Background

– Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), 1993• Required Federal agencies to produce:

– Strategic Plan

– Annual Performance Plan

– Annual Performance Report

– GPRA Modernization Act, 2010• Codified best practices, governance framework

• Requires more frequent reporting and reviews (quarterly instead of annually) intended to increase use of performance information in program decision-making

• Encourages focus on highest priorities

OCFO/Strategic Investments Division – Strategy and Performance BranchFor NASA official use only

NASA’s 2014 Strategic Goals and Strategic Objectives

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NASA’s2014StrategicPlanisavailableat:http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/FY2014_NASA_SP_508c.pdf.

Planetary Science FY16 Performance Goals

Strategic Goal 1:

Expand the frontiers of knowledge, capability, and opportunity in space

Objective 1.5 Ascertain the content, origin, and evolution of the solar system and the potential for life elsewhere.

Performance Goal 1.5.1

Demonstrate progress in advancing the understanding of how the chemical and physical processes in the solar system operate, interact and evolve.

Performance Goal 1.5.2

Demonstrate progress in exploring and observing the objects in the solar system to understand how they formed and evolve.

Performance Goal 1.5.3

Demonstrate progress in exploring and finding locations where life could have existed or could exist today.

Performance Goal 1.5.4

Demonstrate progress in improving understanding of the origin and evolution of life on Earth to guide the search for life elsewhere.

Performance Goal 1.5.5

Demonstrate progress in identifying and characterizing objects in the solar system that pose threats to Earth or offer resources for human exploration.

Performance Goal 1.5.6

By December 2017, launch at least two missions in support of Strategic Objective 1.5.

Planetary ScienceFY16 Annual Performance Indicators (APIs)

Strategic Objective 1.5

Ascertain the content, origin, and evolution of the solar system and the potential for life elsewhere.

Multi-year Performance

Goal 1.5.1

Demonstrate progress in advancing the understanding of how the chemical and physical processes in the solar system operate, interact and evolve.

TBD

API PS-16-1Demonstrate planned progress in advancing the understanding of how the chemical and physical processes in the solar system operate, interact and evolve.

TBD

Multi-year Performance

Goal 1.5.2

Demonstrate progress in exploring and observing the objects in the solar system to understand how they formed and evolve.

TBD

API PS-16-2Demonstrate planned progress in exploring and observing the objects in the solar system to understand how they formed and evolve.

TBD

API PS-16-14 Complete Juno Jupiter orbit insertion. G

Planetary ScienceFY16 Annual Performance Indicators (cont.)

Strategic Objective 1.5

Ascertain the content, origin, and evolution of the solar system and the potential for life elsewhere.

Multi-year Performance

Goal 1.5.3

Demonstrate progress in exploring and finding locations where life could have existed or could exist today. TBD

API PS-16-3 Demonstrate planned progress in exploring and finding locations where life could have existed or could exist today. TBD

API PS-16-10 Achieve the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission success criteria. G

Multi-year Performance

Goal 1.5.4

Demonstrate progress in improving understanding of the origin and evolution of life on Earth to guide the search for life elsewhere.

TBD

API PS-16-4 Demonstrate planned progress in improving understanding of the origin and evolution of life on Earth to guide the search for life elsewhere. TBD

Multi-year Performance

Goal 1.5.5

Demonstrate progress in identifying and characterizing objects in the solar system that pose threats to Earth or offer resources for human exploration.

TBD

API PS-16-9Demonstrate planned progress in identifying and characterizing objects in the solar system that pose threats to Earth or offer resources for human exploration.

TBD

API PS-16-5Conduct research, involving both U.S. interagency and international cooperation and partnerships, into mitigation techniques and technologies to address the anticipated threat of small body impacts to life on Earth.

G

Planetary ScienceFY16 Annual Performance Indicators (cont.)

Strategic Objective 1.5

Ascertain the content, origin, and evolution of the solar system and the potential for life elsewhere.

Multi-year Performance

Goal 1.5.6By December 2017, launch at least two missions in support of Strategic Objective 1.5.* G

API PS-16-6 Complete the OSIRIS-REx Pre-Ship Review (PSR). G

API PS-16-7 Launch the InSight mission. R

API PS-16-8 Complete Mars 2020 Mission Confirmation Review. G

API PS-16-15 Complete Discovery 13 selections. G

*Performance Goal met with launches of MAVEN and OSIRIS-REx.Note: For reasons of year-to-year numbering consistency, there are no APIs PS-16-11 through PS-16-13.

Annual Performance Report Process - PSS

• The subcommittee is asked to assess progress on five Annual Performance Indicators:

– API PS-16-1 Demonstrate planned progress in advancing the understanding of how the chemical and physical processes in the solar system operate, interact and evolve.

– API PS-16-2 Demonstrate planned progress in exploring and observing the objects in the solar system to understand how they formed and evolve.

– API PS-16-3 Demonstrate planned progress in exploring and finding locations where life could have existed or could exist today.

– API PS-16-4 Demonstrate planned progress in improving understanding of the origin and evolution of life on Earth to guide the search for life elsewhere.

– API PS-16-9 Demonstrate planned progress in identifying and characterizing objects in the solar system that pose threats to Earth or offer resources for human exploration.

Annual Performance Report Process - PSS

• The subcommittee is tasked with making a high-level, subjective assessment of science performance and should base its evaluation on its general sense of progress as evidenced by key accomplishments and/or disappointments for each of the three objectives.

• SMD initiates this process by providing draft science accomplishments for each science objective. The subcommittee reviews the input and edits, adds, and/or deletes items, as desired.

• The subcommittee is asked to document its high-level assessment by assigning a color-coded rating for each objective and providing short explanatory text focused on example achievements (and/or shortfalls) upon which the assessment is based.

Guidelines for Science Progress Ratings

Color Rating Definition

GREEN Expectations for the research program fully met in context of resources invested.

YELLOW Some notable or significant shortfalls, but some worthy scientific advancements achieved.

REDMajor disappointments or shortfalls in scientific outcomes, uncompensated by other unusually positive results.