Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Earth Observing
System (EOS) Data Information System (EOSDIS), focusing on EOSDIS
estimated funding requirements. GAO found that: (1) EOS program
costs will total $8.3 billion through fiscal year (FY) 2000; (2)
the EOSDIS Core System contract is expected to cost $826 million
through FY 2003; (3) about one-third of EOS costs will go to
EOSDIS, which will operate EOS satellites and instruments, provide
ground acquisition, processing, storage, management, and
distribution of EOS data, and make the enormous quantity of data
accessible to as many as 10,000 scientists and other users; and (4)
NASA has developed an interim system to make current earth science
data from disparate systems available to users.
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