1. Heliophysics Research Program Arik Posner Heliophysics R&A Lead

2. Topics: ROSES14 Changes ROSES13 Selections Update Competed Research Budget Trends

3. Topic: ROSES14 Changes

4. ROSES14-1 The new ROSES14 Solicitation was Released in February Changes: H-SR: H-SR Remains Open to All Science Areas in Heliophysics (Including Inner Magnetosphere) No Duplicate Proposals Allowed! Encourage/Discourage in Step 1 H-TIDeS: No Change H-GCR: Not Solicited in ROSES14. All Funds Committed. New Competition in ROSES16 Expected.

5. ROSES14-2 H-LWS: No Strategic Capabilities. Currently Fully Subscribed. New Set of Focus Topics Solicitation for Independent Targeted Investigations Focus Topics (4-Year Duration): 1) Prediction of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field Vector Bz at 1AU 2) Physics-based methods to predict connectivity of SEP sources to points in the inner heliosphere, tested by location, timing, and longitudinal separation of SEPs 3) Ion-Neutral Interactions in the Topside Ionosphere Not a Focus Topic/No Team (3-Year Duration): Physics of the inner Heliosphere (Preparing for SPP, SO)

6. ROSES14-3 H-GI: Two Mission-Specific Calls One Open Data Development Call Mission-Specific Calls(3-Year Duration): 1) Van Allen Probes/BARREL Joint GI 2) IRIS GI ODDE Call (2-Year Duration): Development of Data Products from Currently Operating HSO Missions. Capped at 100k/yr. H-IDEE No DEE Call (Subsumed in Cooperative Agreement Notice and H-GI ODDE) Only H-I (Infrastructure)

7. Topic: ROSES13 Selections Update

8. HPD ROSES13 Selections for FY14 Funds ProgramDue Date Sel. Date # Subm, # Sel. % Sel. Avg. Award H-SR*07/17(01/30)261(35)(13+)(122k) H-GI06/1411/15862327113k H-LWS05/0109/301872513172k H-GCR10/31TBD47TBD H-TIDeS*08/15(01/31)92(13)(14+)(337k) H-IDEE**07/17(02/05)35(9)(26+)(56k) * Some Proposal Selections Deferred ** H-DEE Selected. H-I Subelement TBD

9. Topic: Competed Research Budget Trends

10. FY15 President’s Budget Request

13. Total Competed R&A 69.2- 63.0 63.7 63.6 63.6 63.6 Shared. ¼ (~$1.2M/yr) Helio.

14. Competed R&A Budget/Selection Trends

17. What is the Heliophysics Research Program? (2012 Slide) The Heliophysics Research Program contains: Mission Operations & Data Analysis of many missions of the Heliophysics System Observatory: ACE, Cluster II, Geotail, RHESSI, SOHO, TIMED, TRACE, Voyager, and Wind; Solar and Space Physics Mission Operations Center. The majority of Heliophysics Research & Analysis programs: Geospace and Solar/Heliospheric Supporting Research & Technology Program (including Supporting Research, Instrument Development, Low-Cost Access to Space), Heliophysics Guest Investigator Program, Heliophysics Theory Program. Community Coordinated Modeling Center and the Heliophysics Science Support Office. Data Centers and Data Environment Programs: Solar Data Analysis Center, Space Physics Data Facility, Data & Modeling Service, competed Heliophysics Data Environment Enhancements (formerly VxOs). Sounding Rockets and the Rocket Range infrastructure on behalf of SMD. Perception: The Heliophysics Research Program is mainly Competed R&A. 17Heliophysics Research Program

18. Approximate Heliophysics Research Program Element Funding Levels (2012 Slide) HRP: ~$160-180M/yr Heliophysics Research and Analysis: 19% Sounding Rockets: 31% Research Range: 11% Other Missions and Data Analysis: 39% Heliophysics Research Program18

19. SMD Research Programs in Comparison (2012 Slide) Example: Physics Today, American Institute of Physics Periodical, Vol. 65, No. 4, April 2012. ‘Heliophysics Research’ FY12 Actual Budget Perceived as 28.2% of Total HPD Budget i.e., THE LARGEST FRACTION OF THE TOTAL BUDGET OF ALL SMD SCIENCE DIVISIONS Earth Science: 25% Astrophysics+JWST: 13.8% Planetary Science: 11.6% Heliophysics FY12 Actual Competed R&A is small: 9.4% (k$58,528 incl. LWS TR&T) 19Heliophysics Research Program

20. Misperception Persists (2014 Slide) Simple Google Search: EOS/Mohi Kumar (American Geophysical Union) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014EO110002/pdf “Heliophysics, by contrast, gets a roughly 2% boost in the proposed FY 2015 budget over the enacted FY 2014 budget to $668.9 million.” Association of Public and Land Grant Universities http://www.aplu.org/document.doc?id=5087 “NASA Science cut (except Heliophysics)” American Institute of Physics http://www.aip.org/fyi/2014/fy-2015-budget-request-nasa “Heliophysics: $668.9 million, an increase of 2.3 percent” Assoc. for American Universities https://www.aau.edu/uploadedFiles/Budget_and_Appropriations/FY15_Budget_and_Appropriations_Information/FY14_Bud get/AAU_Summary_of_the_Budget/FY15%20AAU%20Budget%20Summary.pdf “…and increase for Heliophysics (+2.3 percent).” Univ. Colorado http://www.cu.edu/sites/default/files/FY%2015%20budget%20highlights.pdf “Heliophysics-­ ‐ $669 million, which Is $15 million, or 2.3 percent above the FY14 amount of $654 million.” Slate/Phil Plait http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/03/05/nasa_budget_2015_more_cuts_more_politics.html “Other projects got modest increases, including Heliophysics (yay; studying the Sun is important) and a few others.” Spacepolitics.com http://www.spacepolitics.com/2014/03/05/nasa-fy-2015-budget-supports-asteroids-europa-and-commercial-crew-but- sacrifices-sofia/ Reports Plain Budget Numbers Suggesting Real Budget Increase: Heliophysics Up from $654.0 (FY14) to $668.9 (FY15)