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Exploiting Expertise and Knowledge Sharing Online for the Benefit of NASA's GN&C Community of PracticeIn 2004, NASA faced major knowledge sharing challenges due to geographically isolated field centers that inhibited engineers from sharing their experiences, expertise, ideas, and lessons learned. The necessity to collaborate on complex development projects and the reality of constrained project resources together drove the need for ensuring that personnel at all NASA centers had comparable skill sets and that engineers could find resources in a timely fashion. Mission failures and new directions for the Agency also demanded better collaborative tools for NASA's engineering workforce. In response to these needs, the online NASA Engineering Network (NEN) was formed by the NASA Office of the Chief Engineer to provide a multi-faceted system for overcoming geographic and cultural barriers. NEN integrates communities of practice with a cross-repository search and the Lessons Learned Information System. This paper describes the features of the GN&C engineering discipline CoP site which went live on NEN in May of 2008 as an online means of gathering input and guidance from practitioners. It allows GN&C discipline expertise captured at one field center to be shared in a collaborative way with the larger discipline CoP spread across the entire Agency. The site enables GN&C engineers to find the information they need quickly, to find solutions to questions from experienced engineers, and to connect with other practitioners regardless of geographic location, thus increasing the probability of project success.
Document ID
20150008911
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
Authors
Topousis, Daria E.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Lebsock, Kenneth L.
(Orbital Sciences Corp. Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Dennehy, Cornelius J.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
May 26, 2015
Publication Date
August 2, 2010
Subject Category
Documentation And Information Science
Computer Systems
Meeting Information
Meeting: AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2010
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Country: Canada
Start Date: August 2, 2010
End Date: August 5, 2010
Sponsors: American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
control
guidance
navigation
GNC

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