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Charter
INTERAGENCY COORDINATING COMMITTEE FOR AIRBORNE GEOSCIENCES RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS
The Interagency
Coordinating Committee for Airborne Geosciences Research and Applications
(ICCAGRA) is established to improve cooperation, foster awareness, facilitate
communication among sponsoring agencies having airborne platforms and
instruments for research and applications, and serve as a resource to
senior level management on airborne geosciences issues. The Committee
will address interagenc: cooperation issues as they pertain to the use
of airborne platforms and instrument payloads for individual investigators
as well as national and international field campaigns.
Purpose and Functions
The primary purpose
of the ICCAGRA is to increase the effective utilization of the Federal
airborne fleet in support of airborne geoscience research programs conducted
by the individual agencies. Specifically, the ICCAGRA will:
- identify interagency needs and exchange research program schedules
- improve coordination
of airborne programs between agencies
- ensure timely
identification of airborne geosciences program requirements of participating
agencies
- enhance opportunities
for interagency sharing of aircraft resources, airborne instrumentation
and data to minimize duplication, and to expand science investigators'
access to interagency assets
- provide expertise
about airborne science issues to senior level decision makers
- evaluate the coordination
processes and develop, as appropriate, interagency agreements to facilitate
the transfer of airborne platforms or the purchase of reimbursable or
cooperative flight time between cooperating agencies
- establish and
maintain an ICCAGRA Homepage to include: (a) the agencies' research
aircraft capabilities;
(b) a review of research aircraft usage covering the previous fiscal
year and the expected flight plan for subsequent years;
(c) recommendations to improve research aircraft utilization; (d)
pointers to agency-specific
airborne science net sites
- convene a one
day program review where all participants present a review of airborne
programs and plans to agency personnel.
Structure
The ICCAGRA will
consist of representatives from the principal geosciences research aircraft
sponsoring agencies, e.g., NASA, NOAA, NSF, and ONR. A Chairman and an
Executive Secretary will be elected annually from the principal agencies.
Meetings
Committee meetings
will be called by the Chairman, who will also approve the agenda. The
Committee will meet quarterly for the first year and thereafter on a suitable
schedule as decided by committee members, but no less than two times per
year. Minutes of each meeting will be prepared by the Executive Secretary
and distributed in a timely manner to all participants.
Review
The charter for
This committee will be reviewed every three years, commencing April l,
1997, in consideration for continuation.
Termination
A member may withdraw
from the committee at anytime by giving written notice to the other charter
members.
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