Outcome 5.5: Partnerships

Establish partnerships, including innovative arrangements, with commercial, international, and other government entities to maximize mission success.

Other Information:

Across the Agency, we seek and maintain strategic partnerships that leverage resources and increase the impact of our activities. Partnerships within the U.S. Government and with international, academic, and industrial organizations help us execute our missions more efficiently and effectively. We work cooperatively to identify common goals, develop new technologies and applications, and leverage technical expertise to minimize risk. Partnerships allow us to optimize the use of our research and testing facilities, our laboratories, and the talents and skills of our employees. The National Space Policy includes direction to use inventive, nontraditional arrangements to acquire commercial space goods. We are exploring mechanisms such as building public–private partnerships, hosting Government capabilities on commercial spacecraft, and purchasing scientific or operational data products from commercial satellites. The ability to competitively procure technology or services when needed, rather than maintain a capability that cannot be fully used, will allow us to focus our resources for institutional and program capabilities in areas of evolving strategic importance. Greater varieties of partnerships within the Federal Government, and other innovations and collaborations for shared business services, also will allow us to focus on the activities essential for mission performance.

Stakeholder(s):

• Commercial Entities


• International Entities


• Government Entities


• Federal Government


• U.S. Government Organizations


• International Organizations


• Academic Organizations


• Industrial Organizations

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