The GLAST Science Support Center's Role in Supporting the User Community

The GLAST Science Support Center (GSSC) is GLAST's interface with the scientific community and is responsible for scheduling the science observations to be performed by the GLAST mission. The GSSC will provide GLAST mission data, analysis software and documentation to the general community. In addition, the GSSC will administer the guest investigator program for NASA HQ and will provide proposal preparation tools to assist proposers in assessing the feasibility of observing sources of interest. Here we present an overview of the GSSC responsibilities and services to be provided to the users.