Attend live at KSC’s Mission Briefing Room in the KSC Operations and Checkout Building. The video of these two events will be posted to APPEL’s YouTube channel at a later time.
25 Years of Transforming Lessons Learned at NASA
Wednesday, July 24, 2014
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. EST
Knowledge is the bedrock of mission success, and like other knowledge-intensive organizations, NASA faces continuous challenges in making effective use of what it knows. These include:
- Enabling the flow of knowledge across organizational boundaries;
- Ensuring the identification, capture, and dissemination of key lessons and critical knowledge from events such as mishaps and accidents;
- Developing and supporting networks of expertise; preserving knowledge at risk of being lost when experienced personnel leave; and
- Providing means for individuals and teams to discover knowledge they need when they need it.
Join Dr. Ed Hoffman, NASA Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO), on Wednesday, July 24, 2014, from 10:00 – 11:00 a.m., in the first Masters with Masters taping as he interviews two NASA Center CKOs about the Agency’s transformational shift from focusing primarily on sharing lessons via one online system to growing a vibrant community of knowledge champions. NASA is actively engaged in developing knowledge strategies that identify and capture critical knowledge and address gaps, using approaches (such as case studies, storytelling, portals, search, video interviews and Pause and Learns) illustrated in NASA’s Knowledge Map.
| Dr. Michael Bell is the Chief Knowledge Officer for the John F. Kennedy Space Center and also serves as the Program Manager for the Agency’s Lessons Learned Information System (LLIS). In this position, he promotes and facilitates knowledge collection, knowledge sharing and learning from one another’s experiences. | |
| David Oberhettinger serves as the Chief Knowledge Officer of the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He is also responsible for managing the JPL Engineering Standards Office and the JPL Spaceflight Engineering Research Program, and he chairs the JPL Lessons Learned Committee. Formerly, he managed the Spacecraft Engineering Technology Department of Northrop Grumman. |
Lessons Learned and Stories from Space Shuttle and Commercial Crew Programs
Wednesday, July 24, 2014
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST
On Thursday, July 24th, at 1 pm, join Dr. Ed Hoffman, NASA Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO), as he interviews Mike Ciannilli, NASA Test Director, Project Manager of the Columbia Research and Preservation Office and Project Manager of the Space Shuttle Challenger Office, and Jon Cowart, NASA deputy partner manager working with Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), at Kennedy Space Center.
| Mike Ciannilli has worked for 18 years in NASA manned spaceflight programs. Ciannilli has extensive launch vehicle processing experience from both the operations and engineering perspectives as well as having the unique perspectives as both a contractor and civil servant. He has served as NASA Test Director and NASA Landing and Recovery Director for launch countdown and landing operations and has trained in recovery and contingency operations in the event of a prelaunch, launch or landing mishap, and he has led the certification training for the Space Shuttle Launch Countdown and Mission Management Teams. | |
| Jon Cowart, under the NASA’s Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative, works in leading the effort to facilitate commercial vehicle development and certification for safe transportation of NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station and other low Earth orbit destinations. Cowart joined the Kennedy team in 1987 as a project engineer for space shuttle Atlantis. Since then, he has led many programs as well as teams including the International Space Station flight 2A and 3A processing teams and shuttle Discovery engineering team. |
For more information contact Susan Snyder.
