The NASA Engineering Network: Embedding Lessons Into Engineering Processes and Learning at NASA
- Paper number
IAC-06-D1.5.01
- Author
Mrs. Jeanne Holm, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
- Coauthor
Mr. Gregory Robinson, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/Headquarters, United States
- Coauthor
Dr. Daniel Schumacher, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/Headquarters, United States
- Coauthor
Mr. Manson Yew, Jet Propulsion Laboratory / CalTech, United States
- Year
2006
- Abstract
The NASA Engineering Network (NEN) applies the latest organizational practices, engineering tools, and collaborative capabilities to institutionalize NASA's experiences and enhance a NASA engineer's skills and knowledge. NEN provide the NASA engineer with engineering portals to integrate the necessary documents, tools, and engineering resources, including NASA's Lessons Learned, to help them solve problems and design solutions more efficiently. NEN initially provided the NASA community with an upgrade to NASA's Lessons Learned. Built on the NASA Portal and the Inside NASA infrastructure, the new NASA Lessons Learned provides advanced capabilities for searching and browsing NASA's lessons learned, as well as managing the collection of lessons learned. Advanced search capabilities also mine the knowledge in other NASA engineering repositories and allows users to search across several or all repositories at once. NEN integrates the Agency-wide resources to enhance the capabilities of all engineers not only by managing engineering knowledge and lessons learned, but also by incorporating them into NASA's engineering requirements, principles and standards, and providing training and compliance support. This includes the rich resources available to engineers, such as technical standards, risk management support, learning, and project management support. NEN also provides collaboration tools to facilitate creating, reviewing, and disseminating requirements and specifications, as well as an expertise locator (built on open source standards and using semantic web technologies) to assist in finding the best collaboration partner from across NASA to help engineers complete their tasks. All of these services are tied into the NASA knowledge management infrastructure, taxonomy, and plans. NEN provides a practical system that institutionalizes NASA's experiences, and incorporates the latest technology in integrating lessons learned, and presents knowledge in a unified interface to the engineering community. NEN provides engineers with a robust system where knowledge gained from lessons can continue to be applied to current and future projects.
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