1 Advanced Collaborative Environments Kris Brown Carmel Conaty Johnny Medina

2 Contents  Introduction  Agency Initiatives  The State of the Art  Customer Focus  GSFC near term products  Vision for the Future

3 Advanced Collaborative Environments “ c o l l a b o r a t e ” communicate voice mail travel today Internet voice co-location concurrentinformation tomorrow virtual interact real-time access video distributed Next-generation Internet asynchronous integratedknowledge

4 Engineering Environments Collaborative Distributed Collaborative Advanced Distributed Collaborative Ability to communicate with team members Ability to communicate with geographically dispersed team members across space & time Integrates distributed collaboration between people, with their processes and data What is this thing anyway…? yesterday today tomorrow

5 NASA is seizing the opportunity to greatly improve productivity and the delivered value our missions  Put in place an environment linking people, knowledge, information system architectures, tools and processes Enabled by current and emerging information system architectures and related technologies NASA, as a complex enterprise, is ideally suited Why is this important...? Relevance

6  Why now? NASA has an urgent need to deliver successes in a constrained and changing environment NASA’s workforce is hungry for more efficient and effective approaches to their currently overloaded plates All aspects of NASA’s mission may benefit Strategic management Enterprise missions Technology management and commercialization Engineering excellence and personnel development Why is this important...? Relevance

7  Intelligent Systems Program (ISP)  Design for Safety  Intelligent Synthesis Environment (ISE) Program What’s going on...? NASA Initiatives

8  Design Environment Attributes Collaboration relies on human interaction Pockets of integrated product teams for specific applications Divided organizationally Minimal knowledge access and reuse Business rules are project-specific (often reinvented and seldom reused) High business overhead Project driven Divide and conquer is the norm... NASA

9  Effectiveness Design phases are time and labor intensive. Risk, cost and performance are not well evaluated. Re-use is expensive. Decision making is hampered by lack of timely, accurate and complete information. Visioning of future systems is constrained by lack of sophisticated conceptual design environments with appropriate levels of fidelity. Divide and conquer is the norm... NASA

10  Design Environment Attributes Collaborative and highly distributed Real time knowledge capture and access Enterprise users at all levels share infrastructure/knowledge Rapid, high-fidelity system conceptualization Life cycle modeling and simulation Distributed visualization (desktop) Risk, cost and performance integrated into design Strategically driven Organize and collaborate is the goal... Our Future

11  Benefits Low overhead Knowledge re-use across missions and across life cycle Preliminary design phases more efficient and cost effective More efficient; increased science value Organize and collaborate is the goal... Our Future

12 By Johnny Medina... State of the Art

13 Vision Our vision is to transform the working lives of scientists, engineers and decision makers, by creating and infusing into practice a collaborative engineering environment - an integrated system of people, processes, tools and knowledge.

14  Diverse set of pilot missions functionally chosen with respect to life cycle time domain, deployment phase, science and technology characteristics  Target near term wins Deliver near term products with immediate, tangible impacts … crawl before we learn to run! Near term products directly map into long term solution Deploy and validate products incrementally, utilizing pilots  Design and implement a deployment/validation strategy Select pilots which serve as catalysts to enable a broad and pervasive Agency-wide impact  Vision begins by putting knowledge at the users’ fingertips Approach

15  Highly distributed, heterogeneous and collaborative design environment User access to real-time knowledge at all levels: Domain and systems engineers Project teams and managers Program teams and managers Technologists Enterprise managers and personnel User access to engineering and collaborative tools and services  Distributed services Engineering and management toolboxes Modeling and simulation Visualization capabilities Products & Systems Architecture

16  Infrastructure  Collaborative Environments  Toolbox  Intelligent Knowledge Repository and Management  Modeling and Simulation  Visualization  Technology assessment and planning capabilities  Engineering Process and Intelligent Workflow  Risk Assessment/Management  Mission and technology cost modeling  Investment Analysis Capabilities Product Elements

17 What’s in it for You?

18 Advanced Collaborative Environments Kris Brown, Carmel Conaty & Johnny Medina thank you for attending... for more information

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