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Management Approach for NASA's Earth Venture-1 (EV-1) Airborne Science InvestigationsThe Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) Program Office (PO) is responsible for programmatic management of National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Science Mission Directorate's (SMD) Earth Venture (EV) missions. EV is composed of both orbital and suborbital Earth science missions. The first of the Earth Venture missions is EV-1, which are Principal Investigator-led, temporally-sustained, suborbital (airborne) science investigations costcapped at $30M each over five years. Traditional orbital procedures, processes and standards used to manage previous ESSP missions, while effective, are disproportionally comprehensive for suborbital missions. Conversely, existing airborne practices are primarily intended for smaller, temporally shorter investigations, and traditionally managed directly by a program scientist as opposed to a program office such as ESSP. In 2010, ESSP crafted a management approach for the successful implementation of the EV-1 missions within the constructs of current governance models. NASA Research and Technology Program and Project Management Requirements form the foundation of the approach for EV-1. Additionally, requirements from other existing NASA Procedural Requirements (NPRs), systems engineering guidance and management handbooks were adapted to manage programmatic, technical, schedule, cost elements and risk. As the EV-1 missions are nearly at the end of their successful execution and project lifecycle and the submission deadline of the next mission proposals near, the ESSP PO is taking the lessons learned and updated the programmatic management approach for all future Earth Venture Suborbital (EVS) missions for an even more flexible and streamlined management approach.
Document ID
20140002411
Acquisition Source
Langley Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Guillory, Anthony R.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Denkins, Todd C.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Allen, B. Danette
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Date Acquired
March 28, 2014
Publication Date
August 25, 2013
Subject Category
Administration And Management
Report/Patent Number
NF1676L-16084
Meeting Information
Meeting: SPIE Optics and Photonics 2013
Location: San Diego, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: August 25, 2013
End Date: August 29, 2013
Sponsors: International Society for Optical Engineering
Funding Number(s)
WBS: WBS 144598.01.03
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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