Strategic Planning Framework Programs & Projects ArchitectureRoadmaps Agency Goals & Objectives National Policy and Direction

Roadmap Integration Individual roadmaps establish priorities, options, and recommended approaches for achieving NASA strategic objectives –High-level products developed by discipline experts, managers, visionaries –Updates expected every 3-5 years or as discoveries/progress warrants –Individual roadmaps are not implementation plans and are not “funded” The integrated strategic architecture will assimilate the roadmaps to provide the following: –A framework for Agency-wide decisions and priorities –The basis for top-level Agency funding decisions –The technical foundation of the Strategic Plan Architectural options will be developed and assessed for presentation to the NASA Strategic Planning Council –Trade studies and affordability analyses will assess costs and benefits of various options, with feedback to roadmap teams –Each architecture will identify a critical path of achievements and developments –Architecture will be continuously adjusted and used as a tool for Agency management and budget decisions Roadmaps will be integrated into a unified NASA strategic architecture

Strategic Architecture: What Is it? The integrated strategic architecture will comprise the technical foundation of the strategic plan –Strategic Planning Council is the decision-making body –Also a management tool - continuously updated based on programmatic decisions and progress Assembles program elements and major missions drawn from roadmaps –Preserves roadmap team priorities, structures, and sequences –Rough timeline of Agency-level achievements, decisions, developments –Depicts major options and branch points, and identifies information or discoveries that will drive choices Identifies major capability and infrastructure needs –Derived from strategic roadmaps, incorporating findings of capability roadmaps –Map into Agency core competencies and human capital priorities Several options will be prepared and assessed prior to presentation to SPC –Options will be scenario-based to enable comparisons and identify inter-roadmap choices, priorities, and decisions –Developed and iterated by integration and synthesis teams –Incorporate NRC reviews of individual roadmaps –NAC summer workshop creates “final” architectural options to carry forward

Integration Steps - Detail Step 1: Assemble and analyze information across roadmaps –Identify priorities, key relationships, and dependencies –Derive key strategic decisions, implications, and natural sequences/precedence –Interact with roadmap teams (SRM and CRM) as necessary –Input data into relational database Step 2: Create draft architectures for comparison –Emphasize major strategic relationships and decisions –Prepare integrated architectural elements and options Scientific achievements - robotic and human Expansion of robotic/human presence Understanding space environment and effects on humans –Assemble and assess draft architectures Identify “scenarios” to be used for comparison and evaluation Consistent with NASA objectives, policies, and roadmap priorities Top-level assessment of affordability, achievements, Step 3: Present, discuss, iterate, downselect, and finalize architectures –Synthesis team workshops in June and July Center system engineers, senior managers, other experts –Steering group review in late June (Roadmap co-chairs) –NAC roadmap workshop in mid-late August (NAC plus co-chairs) –Architectures presented to SPC in late September

Identify relationships, dependencies, sequences Iterate with Roadmap Teams Strategic Roadmaps Synthesize and assess architectural options Capabilities and Agency guidance: Policy Budget Priorities Steering Group Review (Roadmap co-chairs) Integration Process Flow Strategic Planning Council Strategic Architecture Strategic Decisions New Initiatives Strategic Plan NAC Workshop

Top-Level Milestones Release “New Age of Exploration” (Agency objectives)Jan 2005 Integration team meetingsstart Feb 11 Draft capability roadmapsFeb-Mar Draft strategic roadmaps (content)Apr 15 Synthesis workshop #1~Jun 15 Steering group review~Jun 30 Roadmap drafts to NRCJun 1 Synthesis workshop #2~Jul 15 NAC summer workshop~Aug 15 Architecture reviews and completionSep 1-30 Roadmap reports complete (text)Oct 1 Final architectures to SPC Oct 1 Agency strategic plan releaseJan