IRAD Task Name

1
IRAD Task Name

• PI Name
• Title/code

2
Overview

• Summarized Task Description
• Provide a high-level description of the task
• Driver / Need
• What Science/Exploration Challenge, Strategic
  Mission, Engineering Research, or Technology
  Development need does this task addresses.
• What will we be better prepared to succeed at if
  this task is successful?
• Benefits
• How will you show the benefit that this task will
  give

3
Task Objective

• In capsule form, what do you hope to accomplish
  or prove?
• List out any significant changes that may have
  been made to this task since the beginning of the
  fiscal year

4
Accomplishments

• What did you accomplish during the year thus far?
• What is the significance of these results?
• What issues or problems were encountered?

5
Milestones and Deliverables

• Fiscal Year Accomplishments
• List milestones accomplished this fiscal year
• Fiscal Year Plan vs. Actual Deviations
• List milestones that were not completed on
  schedule or were deleted, their new completion
  date, and the justification for the changes.

6
Budget

• Procurement Funded xxxK
• Describe how you spent your procurement
• If you deviated from your original procurement
  plan explain how and give justification for why
• Have you spent all your ? If not, what is left
  and how will you spend it?
• Manpower Allocated x.x FTE
• Describe how you spent your manpower allocation.
• If you deviated from your original labor plan
  explain how and give justification for why
• Have you exhausted all your manpower allocation?
  If not, what is left?

7
Future / Next Steps

• What potential customers or following on funding
  sources are for this technology
• How should GSFCs investment in your technology
  be leverage to further improve our competitive
  posture in this area?