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Foreword For more than a century, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its predecessor the National Advisory Council for Aeronautics (NACA) have advanced our Nation’s most ambitious and challenging technological endeavors. Through innovative technology development programs, NASA has enabled science and space exploration missions that have extended, in profound ways, our knowledge of the Earth, our solar system, and the universe beyond. NASA technology development programs have shaped our understanding of aeronautics and strengthened the aviation systems that sustain global transportation and commerce. To continue and guide this legacy of innovation, and to help ensure future missions and national goals are achieved, the Agency has developed the <strong>2017</strong> NASA Strategic Technology Investment Plan (STIP). This STIP is an important element in the Agency-wide technology portfolio management process. It provides guiding principles for investment in the technologies detailed in the 2015 NASA Technology Roadmaps. The STIP process begins with the Agency Strategic Goals that ultimately drive the requirements for technology development that NASA must support over the next 20 years. The STIP uses an analytical approach, reflecting direct input from each NASA Mission Directorate, to categorize technology investments and provide guidance for balanced investments across the portfolio. Guiding principles, detailed below, align with the Agency’s commitment to optimize technology investments while providing transparency and the maximum benefit to the Nation. Together, the goals, investment categories, and guiding principles outline an actionable plan to help NASA and its stakeholders drive technology development and innovation over the next two decades. Background NASA’s Definition of Technology: A solution that arises from applying the discipline of engineering science to synthesize a device, process, or subsystem, to enable a specific capability. The <strong>2017</strong> STIP is a major update to the 2012 Strategic Space Technology Investment Plan. The updated STIP reflects advances in technology and evolving Agency needs and relies upon the updated 2015 NASA Technology Roadmaps. The updated roadmaps are organized around 15 key Technology Areas shown in Figure 1, which now include aeronautics. The roadmaps summarize the technologies that the Agency could develop. However, the roadmaps catalog many more technologies than can be funded in the technology portfolio. Consequently, the Agency must understand how each technology benefits its missions and the needs of the Nation and carefully allocate its technology investments. The STIP provides high-level strategic guidance for investment in technology research and development across NASA, defining guidelines to calibrate the Agency’s technology portfolio. NASA’s Office of the Chief Technologist conducts an annual analytical assessment of the portfolio and compares the year’s investments against the guidelines in the STIP. The results of this assessment are reviewed by the Mission Directorates and Offices via NASA’s Technology 1
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