Advanced Collaborative Environments

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 ” distributed knowledge integrated video tomorrow interact asynchronous virtual real-time access Next-generation Internet voice mail co-location voice today concurrent information travel communicate email Internet

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

5. Relevance NASA is seizing the opportunity to greatly improve productivity and the delivered value our missions Why is this important...? • 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

6. Relevance Why is this important...? • 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

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

8. Today @ NASA • 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...

9. Today @ NASA Divide and conquer is the norm... • 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 designenvironments with appropriate levels of fidelity.

10. Our Future Organize and collaborate is the goal... • 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

11. Our Future Organize and collaborate is the goal... • 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

12. State of the Art By Johnny Medina...

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. Approach • 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

15. Products & Systems Architecture • 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

16. Product Elements • 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

17. What’s in it for You?

18. Advanced Collaborative Environments Kris Brown, Carmel Conaty & Johnny Medina thank you for attending... for more information email kris.brown@gsfc.nasa.gov