CARA Devolution ESMO Pilot Program

Information regarding the current effort ongoing with CARA to determine the steps needed to have a mission move away from being supported by CARA, otherwise referred to as Devolving/Devolution. Information regarding the working group established to undertake this effort, documents agreed that needed to be written and plans for a parallel operations period.

The communication between ESMO and CARA during the Parallel Operations period
will be as the following:
– A daily email will be sent from ESMO to CARA describing each HIE that is being actively planned and
worked, and the action that ESMO is planning on taking
– A weekly email will be sent from ESMO to CARA listing the progress toward achieving the parallel
operations success criteria
– The CARA team will remain on distribution for ESMO HIE communications and CAM invitations
associated with DAMs/RMMs during the parallel operations period
– At a minimum, 2 members of the CARA team will be in attendance at all ESMO planning and review
discussions
– A monthly email will be sent from ESMO to CARA with the HIE metrics
• During parallel operations, ESMO will contact NASA Headquarters to report any redDevolution Working Group laid out and completed all steps needed to
begin parallel operations
• Parallel Ops for ESMO began on 11/26 (CARA in shadow mode only)
• Any lessons learned from parallel ops will be folded back into
documents/templates
• Hope to achieve all success criteria < 6 months
• Decision for permanent devolution will be based on completion of
parallel ops and other future documentation creation (CARA Standard
and Handbook, etc) and reviews (ORR)
event which is less than 2 days from TCA, including the proposed remediation, on an
as-needed daily basis flow using SpaceTrack to send and receive data