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First NASA IT Summit Explores Tech Innovations NASA’S First IT Summit Brought Together Collaborative and Transparent Fashion National Aeronautics and Space Administration Issue 5 September/October 2010 IT Talk this issue First NASA IT Summit p.1 Heard at the IT Summit p.2 2020 Vision p.4 IT Summit Award Winners p.5 Stennis Opens Records Facility p.6 Office of the Chief Information Officer NASA CIO: Linda Y. Cureton First NASA IT Summit Explores Tech Innovations NASA’s first IT Summit brought together collaborative and transparent fashion. We 941 people to explore the outer reaches promoted integration and communication of information technology from August within NASA by bringing together our own 16 to 18 at the Gaylord National Harbor in IT community across all Centers, all at Maryland. once. Opening our Summit to renowned IT professionals such as the ‘Father of the Presenters from around the country Internet’ as well as other Federal CIOs, shared their expertise on themes ranging private sector, academia and researchers, from social networking and green IT to has infused new best practices and cross innovation, infrastructure, operations and IT IT Summit pollination throughout the IT community,” security and privacy. Fast Facts said NASA Deputy CIO Deborah Diaz. After the public event, NASA IT staff Plans are under way for a 2011 Summit in convened meetings for the IT Management San Francisco from August 15 to 17. • 941 attendees Board, The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Council, Deputy CIO Council, and 17 Check out features throughout this issue • 23 exhibitor NASA IT working groups. Because of the devoted to the IT Summit, including quotes booths critical mass of NASA IT staff gathered from our featured speakers (page 2) and in one place, many working groups insights on the future of NASA IT from • 118 speakers were able to have face-to-face, cross- NASA CIOs (page 4). at 63 breakout functional meetings for the first time. For example, the ODIN Program Board, the sessions Postmasters Working Group, NOMAD Customer Advocacy Council, the Public Key • 575 people Infrastructure Group and the OCIO Strategic tweeting and Communications Committee held their 1,480 tweets first joint meeting to discuss improving IT using “#NASAit” communications across the Agency. “The 2010 IT Summit helped us get closer to those goals through the sharing of IT innovations across the Agency while learning from the efforts of other agencies and the private sector. I have no doubt this Summit was a critical step in strengthening our Photos, presentations IT operations and achieving my vision to and videos of the have the best IT organization in the Federal Summit are available at: government,” said NASA CIO Linda Cureton. www.nasa.gov/offices/ “This Summit has enabled us to work ocio/itsummit/ and exchange innovative ideas in a more NASA App HD Headlines Now Available from the for iPad Summit “NASA Aims To Be Heard at the Summit... Government’s ‘Best IT Organization,’” The NASA App HD invites you to InformationWeek discover a wealth of NASA information “Kundra Challenges right on your iPad. Feds To Spend The application Smarter on IT,” Info collects, customizes Week and delivers an extensive selection “IT Chief Could of dynamically Shift Funds for updated mission Agencies’ Internal information, images, videos and Twitter Tech Projects,” “We come from different parts “…[I]n the Obama administra­ “NASA has been very “…[T]he applications “It’s critical to realize that “The PC era is over. It’s 1981 feeds from various Nextgov of the country but are united in tion, we’re focusing on how successful, precisely because marketplace is changing cyberspace is a central again! What the heck do our commitment to providing to turn around how we’re its scientific missions have radically. The end game is nervous system of today’s you mean by that, Dave? online NASA sources “NASA Sets NASA the finest IT and use spending money to make sure been mission-centric— very interesting. First off, we advanced economics. What I mean is in 1981, the in a convenient, Its Sights on of technology to enable that the projects are providing managed in a mission-centric will get to something called The global information IBM personal computer was mobile package. our mission. With President Off-loading IT dividends for the American way, focused. However, in applications components as and communications released. That was an ignition It’s available free of Obama’s new initiative for people. The first thing is that the IT department, one of the a service, where I won’t buy infrastructures are highly point. From 1981 all the way Functions and charge on iTunes or in space exploration, we must we launched the IT dash­ missions of IT is to support all an ERP [Enterprise Resource interconnected across borders up to the present, we had the the App Store directly Boosting Security,” be able to overcome the board within 60 days. There of those scientific missions. Planning] system, but bits and and jurisdictions and threats PC era. It wasn’t just about on the iPad. More challenges that lie ahead.” Nextgov are a number of accomplish­ You are an infrastructure. pieces of systems, and use to all legitimate activities in individual PCs—it changed information can be ments that move us closer That means, in many cases, —Linda Cureton, CIO, NASA them when I need them. That cyberspace are global and the way we talked about found at: “NASA in Position to making sure that we have designing and building happens today…. But that’s transnational in nature.” computing. I would even say a higher statistical likelihood systems that are multimission not the ultimate endgame, getting into the Internet and To Foster Global —Mark Bregman, Chief www.nasa.gov/nasaapp that projects will deliver. When in nature. So one of the key the ultimate endgame is the web was a way of linking Technology Officer, Cybersecurity,” we launched the dashboard, points I hope you will take applications will go away.” these systems together. When Symantec InformationWeek it was a huge shift. We moved away from my presentation is we start looking at mobile —James Stikeleather, Chief from an environment that was that designing communication computing, we’re seeing Innovation Officer, Dell “Bolden Comments closed, opaque, to an environ­ and information infrastructure another change in the market Services on Employees, ment that became transparent, architectures must be viewed place. We’re now shifting to Contractors at open. The challenge was shin­ from a multimission point of a mobile environment, an ing light on over $76 billion on view because you have to embedded system model NASA IT Summit,” IT investments.” persist over many different being the focal point.” Federal Computer missions.” Week —Vivek Kundra, CIO of the —David W. Cearley, Vice United States —Vint Cerf, Vice President President and Gartner and Chief Internet Fellow in Research, Evangelist, Google Gartner, Inc. Videos of many of the IT Summit speakers can be viewed at www.nasa.gov/offices/ocio/itsummit/ Making IT Stellar at NASA Public site: www.nasa.gov/ocio Internal site: insidenasa.nasa.gov/ocio 2020 Vision 2010 IT Summit Award Winners Glenn We asked some of our NASA CIOs their vision for NASA’s IT by 2020. On August 18 at the Summit outside of Washington, DC, NASA presented these Sustainability of services outside of and within awards to recognize outstanding efforts by the NASA IT community as well as mem­ NASA. Commodity solutions Summit bers of the academic and teaching community who have incorporated NASA tech­ will be completely outside of nology into their educational efforts. NASA and more utilitarian in nature. Yes, the cloud will be mature enough to provide OCIO Excellence in OCIO Humanitarian Award: OCIO Excellence in IT infrastructure services of all Leadership: James Williams Ernest Lopez Security: Joseph Rossoll types. Development tools for the James Williams models Ernest Lopez has demon­ Joseph Rossoll demonstrated end users will be easy to use. IT transformational leadership strated significant, enduring outstanding contributions to organizations will be responsible qualities at NASA through contributions to humanity the advancement of informa­ for configuring these capabilities, his innovative work including through his extensive efforts tion security. He is a nationally developing strategies and helping launch NASA’s Nebula, helping underserved people recognized leader and NASA ensuring that emerging a cloud computing initiative. in the US and Mexico. He has resource in real-time data My vision is to create the best Anytime, anywhere technologies are beneficial to With its world-class personnel, mentored students, helped systems and data security. IT organization in the Federal collaboration and access to OCIO Excellence in The NASA Glenn NASA. Additionally, the current science, and technology rebuild orphanages, and Government well before 2020. information. Customer Service: OCIO Advancement in Research Center gap between mission IT and capabilities, the Goddard assisted in migrant camps This is a vision based on project Linda McMillen Infrastructure or Cost had a three-day administrative IT will be non­ — Cathy Mangum, Langley Space Flight Center enjoys in Mexico. When home, he execution, results, innovation Linda McMillen embodies a Savings Award: existent. Special IT for missions Research Center an exceptional heritage at volunteers at a regional food Sustainability Summit and value to the mission. For “customer-obsessed” attitude Grace DeLeon will be in the architecture of IT, the cutting edge of space bank in San Jose, CA. September 14 to 16, NASA this means improved
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