NASA's transformation to open science demands support for grassroots transformation throughout the process of discovery. In our domain, software practitioners in heliophysics need small workshops to…

This federal contract award for $81,046 was granted by NASA's Shared Services Center to Adnet Systems Inc., a minority-owned, for-profit small business that specializes in data analysis and research to support space and earth science missions. The award will fund a science software workshop focused on improving open science practices for mission-related and model-related software development in heliophysics. The workshop aims to facilitate discussions among software practitioners in the heliophysics community on best practices and standards for collaboration and building on each other's work more efficiently. This award complements the broader Data, Analysis and Software in Heliophysics (DASH) workshop series and is co-located with a NASA Data Systems Architecture workshop on mission-related software. The contract has no set-aside designation and was awarded directly by the NASA Shared Services Center.

NASA's transformation to open science demands support for grassroots transformation throughout the process of discovery. In our domain, software practitioners in heliophysics need small workshops to give members of that community space to discuss how to better collaborate, how to build on each other's work more efficiently, and what best practices and standards those groups wish to adopt to meet those goals. In that vein, we propose to coordinate a science software workshop focusing on improving open science practices for mission-related and model-related software development in heliophysics. Attendees are expected to be involved in either mission-related or model-related software in heliophysics at any career stage from a range of specializations in software. This workshop will give attendees a unique opportunity to discuss potential collaborations on software with others across institutions and to give them a place to discuss what best practices and standards would help them collaborate with and build on other's work more efficiently. We complement the data, analysis and software in heliophysics (dash) workshop by focusing on two specific software types, model-related and mission-related software, that will best benefit from such focused conversations, and intend those conversations to continue at this year's dash meeting and other related workshops. We are also CO-located with the second of the data systems architecture workshops led by greg lucas on mission-related software (NNH22ZDA001N) at the university of iowa (AUG 12-13) to increase ease of access to those attendees. Since the university of iowa has agreed to provide some accommodations without charge, we expect our funding request to be roughly $80K, which will cover the time of committee members in need of funding for this effort, travel honoraria for session facilitators, and the logistics of the meeting not covered by the university of iowa.