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GRID PROJECT PART OF $12M SENATE APPROPRIATION TO NASA

The Committee is highly supportive of continuation of the ECS/EMD Synergy Program, reflecting the success of NASA's EOS Data Information System [EOSDIS] and its core system [ECS]. The Committee is providing $15,000,000 for Synergy in 2005 with $1,500,000 for the Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory's Infomart; not more than $1,500,000 to support the transition of Synergy Infomart activities to the ESE Application Division to be administered through a Cooperative Agreement [CAN] that will focus these funds toward meeting the needs of State, local and tribal governments and $12,000,000 through the EOSDIS Maintenance and Development Contract to support an extension of the Synergy Data Pools to improve data distribution to climate change models, expansion of data distribution to the user community and development of a pilot project using Grid computing technology.