"On the Scientific Viability of a Restructured CRAF Science Payload"

Appendix A

Options Proposed by NASA to Reduce the CRAF Mission's Budgetary Shortfall

NOTE: The information in Appendices A and B was provided to the Committee in a presentation by Dr. Marcia Neugebauer, the CRAF Project Scientist, on 12 July 1990.

OPTION 2. Delete the items listed in Table A and then pick enough items from Table B to make up the necessary totals.

Table A

Table B

There was no consensus about which Table B deletion(s) should be selected. Criteria to be considered are:

Note 2

The Penetrator PI believes he can cut the cost of his investigation by $5.5M in FY91 and $4.5M in FY92 without descoping the science return. He has also agreed to descope as necessary to stay within budget. If these cost reductions in FY91 and 92 cannot be realized, there will have to be deepter cuts selected from Table B.

Note 3. Each investigator estimated the amount by which his team's prelaunch science budget could be descoped as follows:

Note 4

The VIMS costs = (C/C hardware costs, including dedicated contingency)/2 + 0.75 (CRAF VIMS science team costs) + Science coordinator cost.

The factor 0.75 accounts for the 25% reduction of VIMS science costs deleted in Table A.

If CRAF VIMS were dropped, the runout cost of the Cassini VIMS would increase by $7254k.