# Presentation: 542915

## Advanced Collaborative Environments

**Advanced Collaborative Environments**

- Kris Brown
- Carmel Conaty
- Johnny Medina

## Contents

**Contents**

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

## Advanced Collaborative Environments

**Advanced Collaborative Environments**

- “ c o l l a b o r a t e ”

- communicate

- email

- voice mail

- travel

**today**

- Internet

- voice

- co-location

- concurrent

- information

**tomorrow**

- virtual

- interact

- real-time access

- video

- distributed

- Next-generation Internet

- asynchronous

- integrated

- knowledge

## Engineering Environments

**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

**Notes:**
Collaborative --  typical means are basic forms of communication; synchronous physical communication, typically associate collaborative with concurrent engineering -- physically co-located IPT

Distributed Collaborative -- asynchronous virtual collaboration

Advanced distributed collaborative --- with their domain 

## NASA is seizing the opportunity to greatly improve productivity and the delivered value our missions

***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**

## Relevance

**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**

## Intelligent Systems Program (ISP) 

Design for Safety 

Intelligent Synthesis Environment (ISE) Program

- Intelligent Systems Program (ISP)
- Design for Safety
- Intelligent Synthesis Environment (ISE) Program

***What’s going on...?***

**NASA Initiatives**

## 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

- 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**

## Today @ NASA

- 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**

## 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

- 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**

## 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

- 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**

## State of the Art

***By Johnny Medina...***

**State of the Art**

## 
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.  

**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.  ***

## 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 

- 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**

## 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

- 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**

## 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 

- 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**

## What’s in it for You?

## Advanced Collaborative Environments

**Advanced Collaborative Environments**

- Kris Brown,
- Carmel Conaty &
- Johnny Medina
- thank you for
- attending...

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

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