NASA has released its first-ever Space Equity Action Plan. <\/span> Released by: <\/b>NASA<\/span><\/p>\n Objective: <\/b>To allow the agency to track progress toward improved diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility both internally and externally.<\/span><\/p>\n Focus Areas: <\/b>The four focus areas the plan addresses are:<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 <\/b>Increasing integration and utilization of contractors and businesses from underserved communities and expanding equity in NASA\u2019s procurement process;<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Enhancing grants and cooperative agreements to advance opportunities, access and representation for underserved communities;<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 <\/b>Leveraging Earth Science and socioeconomic data to help mitigate environmental challenges in underserved communities;<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 <\/b>Advancing external civil rights compliance and expanding access to limited English proficient populations within underserved communities.<\/span><\/p>\n Monitoring of the Plan: <\/b>An executive team, led by NASA\u2019s deputy administrator will lead the organization\u2019s efforts towards equity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The space agency has also established a leadership council that will be led by the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity and will provide quarterly reports to the executive team.<\/span><\/p>\n Source:<\/b> This post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cExplained | What is NASA\u2019s space equity action plan?\u201d<\/b> published in<\/span> The Hindu <\/b>on 25th April 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? NASA has released its first-ever Space Equity Action Plan. What is the Space Equity Action Plan? Released by: NASA Objective: To allow the agency to track progress toward improved diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility both internally and externally. Focus Areas: The four focus areas the plan addresses are: \u2013 Increasing integration… Continue reading Explained | What is NASA\u2019s space equity action plan?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-181506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704873775},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nWhat is the Space Equity Action Plan?<\/b><\/h5>\n