Goddard has been given the go-ahead to begin planning for a lunar reconnaissance orbiter as part of the Moon-Mars plan.
On the one hand, this is a good thing, as it is one more signal that the new plan is not just smoke and mirrors (well, provided that a spacecraft actually does emerge from the Goddard work).
On the other hand…there is already a “reconnaissance orbiter” of sorts headed to the Moon this year: TransOrbital’s TrailBlazer. One might think, with Carly Fiorina on the Aldridge Commission and HP involved to at least some extent in TrailBlazer, that NASA might consider buying the TrailBlazer dataset. While this may not be the kind or level of detail of data that a big NASA mission would promise to return, it would be a good (not to mention immediate) first step — and it might eliminate some duplication of effort later on, freeing NASA’s orbiter from, say, the high-resolution visible-light mapping task so that it can focus on other tasks.