ai-one Space Research Framework (SRF) Intro Feb 2015

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Tom Marsh, ai-one, inc. February 2015

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NASA TABS Supporting Missions for the Next 30 Years


Goal: Align Mission Timelines with Technology Development TRL Levels

Technology Roadmap Schedule for in-Space Propulsion

Mission Roadmap Schedule For Asteroid Retrieval


Goal: Align Academic, Private and Public Institutions with R&D Needs

Technological Disciplines


Immediate Challenge: Investment Decision Process

Objective: • Improve risk option valuation (investment decisions) for NASA

portfolio of over 1000 R&D Projects under pressure of smaller staff and budget constraints.

Activities • Establish technology priorities and challenges based on NRC

Technology Roadmap, NASA Technology Roadmap and Investment Strategy, and Design Reference Mission scenarios exploration roadmaps.

• Identify which technologies enable mission capabilities and options.

• Identify associated uncertainties and risks. • Identify market and academic enablers


Objective: Use Intelligent Agents to Accelerate Manual Processes

Solution needed to help decisions and identify investment priorities

TAPP was performed for HEOMD/AES to assess the degree of alignment between proposals submitted for AES funding and Strategic Goals

The degree of alignment is shown for NASA centers, Strategic Knowledge Gaps (SKG), Science and HEO needs, Technological Benefit and the commercial mission Inspiration Mars


ai-one’s Space Research Framework (SRF)

ai-one’s SRF is a knowledge framework and toolkit for research and process improvement leveraging

the NASA Strategic Technology Area taxonomy and Roadmaps for space exploration.

SRF makes it possible for researchers and analysts to explore, curate and score NASAs knowledge base by concept(s) through

an interactive dashboard.


Visual Scoring and Navigation by Technology Area (TA) Agent


SRF - What is it?

• Cloud based service uses Intelligent Agents for each of NASA’s 300 technologies identified in14 Technology Area Roadmaps

• Service uses Agents to find/classify/score documents that contain any of the 300 Technologies

• Service scores documents at the paragraph level • Agents can be directed to the web to search, monitor and

collect any documents related to a technology • Agents can be used to identify people and other content that

may be relevant to a technology


SRF - Who is it for?

• NASA & space industry professionals that need better tools for tagging, searching and organizing documents, plans, content and data bases.

• NASA researchers monitoring external web sources, academic papers, blogs, presentations, company information and experts.

• Knowledge management and IT departments that need documents tagged with NASA technology taxonomy

• Academic researchers & students seeking to position their work within the NASA Technology Area Roadmaps

• Companies seeking to identify opportunities for their technology in planned space missions


SRF – Short Term Roadmap

• Phase 1 Completed Jan 2015: Build the prototype solution with agents for the 13 Highest Priority Level 3 Technologies as identified by NASA with three dashboards for the following data:

• NASA 14 Strategic Area Roadmaps • AES (38) Research Requests • SBIR/STTR 2015 Solicitation

• Phase 2: Add the top 83 Level 3 Technologies to the Agents and more content/documents to explore (ongoing effort)

• Phase 3: Integrate external search capability to use same agents to crawl web for unknown research, people, institutions

• Phase 4: Add balance of agents and enrich data with other sources to provide user with additional dimensions


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ai-one Space Research Framework (SRF) Intro Feb 2015