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Advanced Collaborative Environments

Kris BrownCarmel ConatyJohnny Medina

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Contents

Introduction

Agency Initiatives

The State of the Art

Customer Focus

GSFC near term products

Vision for the Future

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Advanced Collaborative Environments

“ c o l l a b o r a t e ”

communicateemail

voice mail

traveltoday

Internet

voiceco-location

concurrent information

tomorrow

virtualinteract

real-time access

video

distributed

Next-generation Internet

asynchronous

integratedknowledge

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Engineering Environments

Collaborative

Distributed Collaborative

AdvancedDistributed

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

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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

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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

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Intelligent Systems Program (ISP)

Design for Safety

Intelligent Synthesis Environment (ISE) Program

What’s going on...?

NASA Initiatives

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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...

Today @ NASA

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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...

Today @ NASA

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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

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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

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By Johnny Medina...

State of the Art

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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What’s in it for You?

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Advanced Collaborative Environments

Kris Brown,Carmel Conaty &Johnny Medinathank you forattending...

for more information email kris.brown@gsfc.nasa.gov

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