It should be noted that the new AAAC will take our draft report and use it to craft an AAAC report that will be included in the March Report. The AAAC report will be distributed to Congress, and as such will have to follow their guidelines with findings and recommendations. Some of our language will have to be changed - for example (in the 3rd to last paragraph):

“Reducing the size of individual research grants, decreasing the number of funding opportunities available, limiting the number of proposal submissions per investigator, or enforcing a pre-proposal stage may artificially raise funding rates in the short term, but will actually only serve to disguise the problem instead of solving it.” reads like a Recommendation, but if that were our actual recommendation to congress, it could hamstring the agencies from actually pursuing any of those options. Please use this section to add recommendations and clarifications to the draft report for AAAC.

* Add paragraph about DOE Cosmic Frontier (Prisca will send) * Clarify language (and numbers) on the AAS full membership vs number of unique proposers over a 3-yr cycle

• Get membership numbers from APS too