By Conrado Morlan Having the opportunity to work for a company that operates in more than two hundred countries and territories and is a global leader in logistics has given me the opportunity to lead large global and regional information-technology projects. While technology made the work complex, the element of culture, both national and […]
By James Fanson They say that good things come in small packages, and this has certainly been true for NASA’s Explorer Program. Explorers are among the lowest-cost missions flown by NASA, but they can pack a big scientific punch.
Astronomers used the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) telescope to take this deep image in ultraviolet light of the sprawling spiral galaxy M81, hoping to learn where it kept its hot stars. Hot stars emit more ultraviolet than cool stars, and are frequently associated with young, open clusters of stars and energetic star-forming regions. Less than […]
By Robert Delwood Today’s tight budgets and reduced staff mean we need ways to work more efficiently. For office and knowledge workers that should include document automation.
Don Cohen, Managing Editor In his “From the Academy Director” column, Ed Hoffman says, “Knowledge is the coin of the realm at NASA,” and discusses the challenges of identifying, capturing, and sharing the wealth of valuable knowledge the agency possesses.
By Ed Hoffman Like all large, knowledge-intensive organizations, NASA faces continuous challenges identifying, capturing, and sharing what it knows effectively.
NASA in the News Focusing on a space program that is built to last, NASA’s FY2013 budget details plans for the agency’s endeavors in Earth and planetary science, astrophysics, heliophysics, aeronautics, technology, and exploration.
By Laurence Prusak At the end of February, the Office of the Chief Engineer at NASA convened a meeting at Kennedy Space Center to discuss a variety of practices and policy issues regarding knowledge management at the agency.
Here are descriptions of some books that we believe will interest ASK readers. An Engineers Alphabet, by Henry Petroski (Cambridge University Press, 2011) Author of The Evolution of Useful Things and The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance among other books, Henry Petroski has long been an astute and eloquent explainer of how […]
