[Newathena-cg-telecon] NACG meeting: Monday 14 April: 14:30 CET

[Didier Barret]

Dear All,

In case you haven’t got it yet. 

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/trump-white-house-budget-proposal-eviscerates-science-funding-at-nasa/
TL;DR version, "The president's proposed 2026 NASA budget cuts astrophysics by 2/3, canceling all telescopes except Hubble and JWST (including Roman, Chandra, Swift, TESS, NuSTAR, XRISM, IXPE, Fermi, NICER), and leading to the closure of NASA Goddard (which has 10,000 civil servants)." 
 
It would be nice I believe if our NASA colleagues could explain us how they see the actions of the congress to revert this. However, the end of the article is particularly worrying: "One concern, however, is that should the budgeting process be delayed—as is often the case with the federal budget—the White House could force agencies to make operational plans based on the president's budget request once the new fiscal year begins on October 1. Again this will depend on negotiations with Congress, but, using a process called impoundment, some Trump officials believe it may be possible to turn the budget request into an actual budget for all intents and purposes. »

All sympathy and support to my NASA colleagues. 

Best regards, Didier





> Le 11 avr. 2025 à 16:22, Athena Community Office <aco at ifca.unican.es> a écrit :
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> Dear all,
> 
> We have uploaded to
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> the final set of candidates to the NASC.
> 
> As agreed with the NASST, we (ACO) have revised candidates:
> - with no motivation (in the categories WG chairs and active members)
> - with non-standard motivations (for those two same categories)
> - with a non-professional email (gmail...) and without a confirmed academic affiliation
> - in industry
> and we have made recommendations.
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> - green: after revision, we recommend acceptance as they are
> - light blue: after revision, we recommend acceptance, but as support members instead of active members (this is a mixed bag of undergraduate of Master students without confirmed academic affiliation and one case of a senior person with no strong academic affiliation or astronomy publication history)
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> Francisco
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> ----- On 9 Apr, 2025, at 11:27, Athena Community Office <aco at ifca.unican.es> wrote:
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> Dear members of the NewAthena Coordination Group (NACG),
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> The next meeting of this group is scheduled for next Monday, 14 April, at 14:30 CET.
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