In a sharp departure from the past, the decadal survey committee went to an outside contractor, Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo, California, for independent, rigorous estimates of the cost of missions it is recommending for the next decade. (sciencemag.org)
«Respondents... generally agree about monetary policy, but there is no clear consensus about most fiscal issues,» said Jay Bryson, global economist at Wells Fargo Securities and chair of the NABE's policy survey committee. (baltimoresun.com)
The House of Representatives Committee on Science staff, citing 1997 authorization language for NSF, asked the NRC to respond to several questions, which were then divided between the Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA) and the Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee (AASC). (nap.edu)