TABLE 1 CDEP BUDGET Planning and Analysis provides for programming, monitoring, and evaluating the CDEP activity. Key government agencies, universities and industries supporting the CDEP include • Program Responsibility — Department of Energy; • Project Management — Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; • Systems Definition — National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Flight Center, Marshall Space Flight Center; • Environmental Assessment — Ames Research Center, NASA, Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental Protection Agency, Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (Department of Commerce), Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Pacific Northwest Laboratories; • Societal Assessment — Planning Research Corporation; • Comparative Assessment — Argonne National Laboratory. An additional 60 contractors are supporting the effort. To date nearly $20 million has been allocated to the CDEP. The budget is shown in Table 1. ASSESSMENT APPROACH The CDEP facilitates a continuing exchange of information between systems definition activities and environmental, societal, and comparative assessment activities. It also provides for an interaction between those activities and the interested public. In this interplay, potential problems should quickly become evident. Systems definition research refines the reference system in the context of new concepts and technologies and provides for examination of technical issues, implementation of critical supporting investigations, and definition of required technology development. The research programs for the environmental, societal, and comparative assessment elements are refined through the Participatory Technology Process shown in Fig. 2. The results of experiments and analyses are drafted, reviewed by peers, reported, and disseminated through normal channels and channels created especially for active feedback. Judgments are made in national workshops,
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