|
| Home | Statistics | Documents | Catalog | StratEdit | XSLTForms | DNAOS | About | Portal | Glossary | Contact [!?] |
| Documents/NASA2011/5: Capabilities |
Strategic Goal 5: Capabilities Enable program and institutional capabilities to conduct NASA's aeronautics and space activities. Other Information: NASA relies on program capabilities and institutional capabilities to accomplish our Mission. Our program capabilities, which are focused on meeting multiple complex programmatic objectives, encompass NASA-unique facilities, management of our scientific and engineering workforce, and the equipment, tools, and other required resources. Our institutional capabilities encompass a broad range of essential technical and non-technical corporate functions for the entire Agency. Engineering, systems engineering, and safety and mission assurance capabilities underpin the success for all our technical activities. Information, infrastructure, and security capabilities support the productivity of our scientists and engineers. Capabilities in human capital management, finance, procurement, occupational health and safety, equal employment opportunity (EEO) and diversity, and small business programs contribute to the strategic and operational planning and management that ensure resources are available when needed. Facilitating communications with the broad range of external communities important to our missions are capabilities in international and interagency relations, legislative and intergovernmental affairs, and strategic communications. These representative capabilities speak to the complexity of mission support, which in total consists of the program and institutional capabilities, resources, and related processes that support our mission requirements and Agency and Center operations. Successful mission support requires integration of all elements across organizational and functional boundaries, and application of an Agency-wide view in making investment decisions. The linkage between our mission portfolio and our mission support elements must be understood through analyses to assess risks, opportunities and efficiencies, and then acted upon. Integration requires a strong governance structure to harmonize policies and business practices, mitigate conflicting requirements, and enforce the internal controls that oversee the effectiveness, efficiency, reliability, and compliance of our operations. Our governance structure includes a decision-making process guided by short- and long-term considerations to create a balanced and integrated mission support portfolio. We use an approach that is requirements-oriented (aligned with missions and external requirements, e.g., legislation) to provide basic Center operations and an optimal mission support environment. We also are addressing strategic themes such as affordability and sustainability for longer-term planning of our program and institutional capabilities. Components of these themes include green initiatives and energy efficiency, workforce alignment and readiness, diversity, improved acquisition, and eliminating Center duplication of capabilities. Our program and institutional capabilities must thus ensure, in the present and in the future, that core services and resources are ready and available Agency wide for performing our Mission. Objective(s):
|
| sitemap | Copyright 1971-2012 01 COMMUNICATIONS INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. - Powered by DNAOS | contact |