Strategic Risk Assessment

This slide presentation provides an overview of the attempt to develop and demonstrate a methodology for the comparative assessment of risks across the entire portfolio of NASA projects and assets. It includes information about strategic risk identification, normalizing strategic risks, calculation of relative risk score, and implementation options

Multi-attribute tradespace exploration and its application to evolutionary acquisition

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2003.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (p. 144).by Jason Edward Derleth.S.M

NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts

Ronald Turner, Analytic Services Inc, USAJason Derleth, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), USAAlvin Yew, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), USAKathy Reilly, Bryce Space and Technology, USAICES503: Radiation Issues for Space FlightThe 47th International Conference on Environmental Systems was held in South Carolina, USA on 16 July 2017 through 20 July 2017The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program nurtures visionary ideas that could transform future NASA missions with the creation of breakthroughs — radically better or entirely new aerospace concepts — while engaging America's innovators and entrepreneurs as partners in the journey. NIAC projects study innovative, technically credible, advanced concepts that could one day “Change the Possible” in aerospace. NIAC supports innovative research through two phases of study, both competitively awarded. The Phase I studies are for nine-month efforts to explore the overall viability of visionary concepts. Phase II studies further develop the most promising Phase I concepts for up to two years, and explore potential infusion options within NASA and beyond. Since 2011, NIAC has funded 136 studies (100 Phase I and 36 Phase II). Twenty studies funded to date have been directly related to human exploration, including habitats, environment control and radiation risk management. This paper provides an update to NIAC’s history and current role including summary statistics about its selections, and notes the efforts directed toward human exploration

START Analysis for ESAS Capability Needs Prioritization

START is a tool to optimize research and development primarily for NASA missions. It was developed within the Strategic Systems Technology Program Office, a division of the Office of the Chief Technologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. START is capable of quantifying and comparing the risks, costs, and potential returns of technologies that are candidates for funding. START can be enormously helpful both in selecting technologies for development -- within the constraints of budget, schedule, and other resources -- and in monitoring their progress. START's methods are applicable to everything from individual tasks to multiple projects comprising entire programs of investigation. They can address virtually any technology assessment and capability prioritization issue. In this report, START is used to analyze the capability needs using data from NASA's Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS)

NIAC: The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program

The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program nurtures visionary ideas that could transform future NASA missions with the creation of breakthroughs - radically better or entirely new aerospace concepts - while engaging America's innovators and entrepreneurs as partners in the journey. NIAC projects study innovative, technically credible, advanced concepts that could one day Change the Possible in aerospace. NIAC supports innovative research through three phases of study, each competitively awarded. Phase I studies are for nine-month efforts to explore the overall viability of visionary concepts. Phase II studies further develop the most promising Phase I concepts for up to two years, prepare a roadmap for further development, and explore potential transition options within NASA and beyond. Phase III studies are designed to strategically transition the most promising NIAC concepts to other NASA programs, other government agencies, or commercial partners. Since 2011, NIAC has funded 128 Phase I, 51 Phase II, and 2 Phase III studies. This paper provides an update on NIACs history and current role in supporting NASAs sustained investments in advanced aerospace technology development

Technology Assessment in Support of the Presidential Vision for Space Exploration

This document is a viewgraph presentation that contains: (1) pictorial description of lunar context, (2) Definition of base case, (3) Optimization results, (4) Effects of cost uncertainties for base case and different assumed annual budget levels and (5) Effects of temporal optimization