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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 [email protected]
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