Public Agenda
Committee on Programs and Plans - NSB Meeting
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National Science Foundation
August 25, 2010
Open: 7:35 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Closed: 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Room 1235
Open Session: 7:35 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
- Approval of Minutes
- February 3, 2010 CPP-CSB Joint Session Minutes
- May 5, 2010 CPP Minutes
- Subcommittee on Polar Issues (SOPI)
Dr. Thomas N. Taylor, SOPI Chairman
- SOPI Chairman's Remarks
- U.S. Antarctic Program Review Polar Research Vessel Support
- OPP Director's Report
- Committee Chairman's Remarks
Dr. Mark Abbott, CPP Chairman
- Reference Written Information Items
- NSB Information Item: NSF Director's Determination of Satisfactory
Progress in the Management of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory by Associated Universities, Inc.
- NSB Information Item: Update on DataNet Awards to Johns Hopkins University and the University of New Mexico
- NSB Information Item: High Performance Computing Update: National Institute for Computational Sciences,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- NSB Information Item: Update on Implementation of NSF’s Revised Cost Sharing Policy in Response to the 2nd
NSB Cost Sharing Report
- Other Items:
- Discussion Item: Review of NSB Policy on Threshold for Awards Requiring NSB Approval
- NSB Discussion and Information Items: NSB Recompetition Policy Implementation
- NSB Discussion Item: Report on Recompetition Policy Implementation
- NSB Information Item: Plan for Terminal Award to Michigan State University for Support of the Operations of
the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL)
- NSB Information Item: Plan to Recompete the Management of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL)
- NSB Discussion
- NSB Discussion Item: Strategic Planning for Cyberinfrastructure
- NSB Information Item: LIGO: Possible Additional AdvLIGO Site
- NSB Information Item: Gemini Extension of Cooperative Agreement
- NSB Information Item: Renewal of Science of Learning Centers
- NSB Information Item: Arctic Logistics Contract
Open Session: 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
- Task Force on Support of Mid-Scale and Multi-Investigator Research (MS)
Dr. Diane Souvaine, MS Chairman
- Task Force Chairman's Remarks
- Discussion and Approval of Charge
- Discussion of Information Gathering
Closed Session: 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
- Committee Chairman's Remarks
Dr. Mark Abbott, CPP Chairman
- NSB Information Item: Update on High Performance Computing Awards
- NSB Information Item: Update on DUSEL
Sonya Mallinoff
Executive Secretary