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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 […]

March 28, 2012 Vol. 5, Issue 3   Like all large, knowledge-intensive organizations, NASA faces continuous challenges identifying, capturing, and sharing what it knows.

March 28, 2012 Vol. 5, Issue 3   The Academy continues to expand opportunities to learn with NASA’s international partners.

March 28, 2012 Vol. 5, Issue 3   A new course teaches the NASA workforce about designing sustainable facilities.