A. The NRCS Science and Technology Consortium is supervised by the Deputy Chiefs for Science and Technology and for Soil Survey and Resource Assessment. It is comprised of these Deputy Area National Headquarters Divisions/Teams (nine in total), twelve National Centers, and three Remote Sensing Laboratories. The Consortium is NRCS’ mechanism to acquire, develop, and transfer technology. With the goal of ensuring NRCS’ technical excellence, the Consortium provides up-to-date technology, tools, and resource information to meet the conservation needs of NRCS customers, partners, and employees. These technologies, tools, and resource information support the understanding of local, State-level, regional, national, and global resource challenges, and provide a means to address them. The Consortium is comprised of scientists and technical specialists from a wide range of disciplines related to the conservation of our natural resources, including agronomists, biologists, cultural resources specialists, economists, engineers, foresters, natural resources specialists, sociologists, soil conservationists, soil scientists, and many others.
The Science and Technology Deputy Area is responsible for animal husbandry and clean water, ecological sciences, engineering, resource economics, and social sciences and manages NRCS’ technical service provider activities. It has technical leadership for the plant materials program and water supply forecasting and snow survey program. Science and Technology also leads the establishment and support for Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units and Centers of Excellence for research, technical assistance and education.

The Soil Survey and Resource Assessment (SSRA) Deputy area is responsible for soil science, soil survey and resource assessment, technical assistance to foreign governments, and international scientific and technical exchange. The SSRA has technical leadership for the use of geospatial technologies (GIS, GPS, remote sensing) in NRCS and for establishing geospatial data standards for the agency. The SSRA also conducts the National Resources Inventory (NRI) for assessment of natural resource conditions and trends in the United States through three Remote Sensing Laboratories and remote sensing activities using aerial photography, satellite imagery and other imagery products. Drawing on the NRI and other data sources, SSRA leads the agency’s resource analysis effort to support USDA in policy making for resource conservation. The SSRA manages the National Centers Servicing Unit—providing budgetary, human resources, and other administrative support for all twelve National Centers.

The twelve National Centers produce specific products (including new technologies) and services to meet the mission of NRCS. Such products include aerial photography, soil surveys, and water supply forecasting and others. Services from the three National Technology Support Centers also include providing direct technical assistance to NRCS State- and field-level offices. The Science and Technology Consortium’s nine National Headquarters Divisions/Teams, twelve National Centers, and Remote Sensing Laboratories include:

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