NNSS Knowledge Management: Retention of Critical Skills and Knowledge
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D and D knowledge management information tool feasibility study for cross-platform mobile applications - 15704
The D and D Knowledge Management Information tool (D and D KM- IT) is a web-based knowledge management information tool built for the D and D user community. A feasibility study is being conducted on cross-platform application frameworks for their viability to the D and D KM-IT mobile needs. Currently, three main Operating Systems comprise the majority of the mobile market IOS, Android, and Windows, requiring a separate application for each device. Cross-development software allows the development of one application using one language, that can be ported or deployed on multiple devices with little effort. Using Xamarin, a native cross-platform framework, create a shared mobile application using Visual Studio. Build a D and D KMIT mobile application designed for the three major mobile platforms. Use Xamarin to compile the application into native applications for the three target platforms. Build and deploy the application on all three mobile platforms. Perform benchmark tests of the developed applications to analyze the performance on the three platforms. A large portion of the business logic of the application has been shared, eliminating development redundancy and minimizing planning, design, and validation time. The user interface development could not fully be shared cross-platform and some platform specific code must be individually implemented for each device. Maintenance, testing and design phases of the software engineering process were reduced from one for each device to having just one shared cycle processes. A less diverse skill-set for developers is required with cross-platform development. Some processes within the development cycle still require redundant activities.
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Knowledge management information tool Web analytics - 15182
The Knowledge Management Information Tool (KM-IT) is a web-based [01] system developed to maintain and preserve the Department of Energy's (DOE's) D and D knowledge base. The system was developed by Florida International University's Applied Research Center (FIU-ARC) with the support of the D and D community including the DOE Office of Environmental Management, and with the active collaboration and support of the DOE's Energy Facility Contractors Group (EFCOG). The KM-IT system is a D and D community driven system tailored to serve the technical issues faced by the D and D workforce across the DOE Complex. The D and D KM-IT is an interactive web-based system operational and available for free access at www.dndkm.org. [02] The D and D KM-IT is currently composed of the following tailored D and D modules: Web Crawler, Hotline, Technology, Document Library (including Hanford's and Savannah River Sites' ALARA Center Reports), Specialist Directory, Lessons Learned, Best Practices, Video/Picture Library, Vendors, Collaboration Tools, Training, and Mobile Systems. The Web Crawler dynamically searches through the D and D KM-IT repository as well as the web and displays search results based on the search criteria. The Hotline allows registered users to post questions/problems related to D and D and to receive solutions from a subject-matter specialist. The Technology module serves as repository of D and D technologies and contains technology/ demonstration fact sheets and vendor information. D and D community members can add Lessons Learned, Best Practices, Documents, and Pictures/Videos to the D and D KM-IT repository, after a formal approval process. The Vendor module provides a directory of commercial vendors who provide D and D related technologies, supplies, and services. D and D KM-IT makes excellent use of the knowledge that exists within the D and D community by allowing D and D project managers around the DOE complex to collaborate by sharing innovative ideas, past experiences, and practices and by maintaining a directory of subject matter specialists. The mobile version of the KM-IT can be accessed from m.dndkm.org [03] and currently has six active modules: Vendor, Technology, Picture/Video Library, Hotline, Lessons Learned and Specialist Directory. Web analytics is a key tool being implemented by the D and D KM-IT project team in an effort to enhance the system to better meet users' needs. The D and D KM-IT project team incorporates web analytics as part of its operational elements to analyze information and key data points on how the system is being used. Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for the purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage. The use of web analytics retains or attracts D and D community members to access and share knowledge through virtual collaboration on the KM-IT platform. D and D KM-IT web analytics measures details on the overall usage of the system without tracking personal information or specific user behavior: how many users visited the application, how many of those users were unique visitors, how visitors come to the system (i.e., by following a link to the system or by using the web site URL via bookmark or directly typing the address), what keywords were used to perform searches with the search engine, how long the average user stayed on a given screen or on the entire system and what links were clicked on. This information is used to identify which areas of the system are more popular than the others and provides information that can be used to streamline the application for a better user experience. (authors)
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The Digital Space Shuttle, 3D Graphics, and Knowledge Management
The Digital Shuttle is a knowledge management project that seeks to define symbiotic relationships between 3D graphics and formal knowledge representations (ontologies). 3D graphics provides geometric and visual content, in 2D and 3D CAD forms, and the capability to display systems knowledge. Because the data is so heterogeneous, and the interrelated data structures are complex, 3D graphics combined with ontologies provides mechanisms for navigating the data and visualizing relationships.
Gomez, Julian E.↗
Knowledge Management in Nuclear Liabilities Regulation in the UK - 18155
Within the UK's nuclear safety regulator (Office for Nuclear Regulation; ONR) nuclear liabilities regulation addresses the safe management of radioactive waste, decommissioning and land quality through a facility's lifetime. Higher activity radioactive waste (HAW) could be stored on site for up to 150 years prior to disposal, Magnox decommissioning sites are planned to be in Care and Maintenance for up to 70 years and Sellafield decommissioning is not planned to be complete until after 2100. The long timescales over which decommissioning occurs and radioactive waste is managed is a challenge to maintaining a suitable level of knowledge to effectively and efficiently regulate nuclear liabilities activities. There is a danger that implicit knowledge accumulated over decades could be lost as people retire. Effective knowledge capture and transfer are key elements in maintaining a workforce with the capacity and capability to deliver high levels of nuclear safety, given the demographics of the UK nuclear industry. Maintenance of recorded information over long timescales with changing technologies is necessary to allow safe storage and disposal of waste and intelligent response to incidents. As the safety regulator, ONR's ability to influence improvement in nuclear safety relies on our inspectors having access to high quality knowledge. The ONR Strategy 2016-2020 [1,2] commits to continue to recruit, retain and develop staff so that we have a core workforce with the capacity and capability to deliver high quality, enabling nuclear regulation. Over the next 30 years, the UK plans to develop a geological disposal facility and UK EDF power stations will transition into decommissioning. The ONR Knowledge Management Strategy sets out the activities planned to maintain specialist knowledge to support staff development and build organisational resilience. Guidance on waste management is given in 'The management of higher activity radioactive waste on nuclear licensed sites' (referred to as the Joint Guidance [3]) published by ONR and the UK environmental regulators. It includes our expectations for managing information and records relating to radioactive waste, and introduces the concept of Radioactive Waste Management Cases (RWMCs). Our expectation is that knowledge and records must both be managed and transferred in such a way that future licensees are properly equipped to ensure that waste continues to be managed in a manner that prevents or minimises hazards to human health and the environment. RWMCs are an effective vehicle for demonstrating how the key elements of long-term safety and environmental performance will be delivered over the life cycle of the waste. They give a history of how the waste has been managed, capturing information and change over time. This paper will look at the challenges to managing knowledge in the UK nuclear industry, focusing on the safe management of radioactive waste, decommissioning and land quality. It will look at the problems faced by both licensees and ONR, drawing out common challenges. The paper will outline the approach taken within ONR to capture and communicate waste management and decommissioning knowledge and experience. Finally, it will look at how ONR regulates and influences how knowledge and records are dealt with in the industry to ensure safe nuclear liabilities management in the long term. (authors)
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Implementation Plan for the Office of Nuclear Energy Knowledge Management Program
The primary purpose of the Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) Knowledge Management (KM) Program is to capture, share, disseminate, and ensure the ability to apply the knowledge created by the major nuclear energy Research and Development (R&D) programs. In support of the KM program, the Implementation Plan for the Office of NE KM Program outlines the knowledge management and distributed data environment that is required for its success. In addition to enumerating some strategic goals and objectives, this document characterizes the initial program and identifies computer-based areas of investment required for increased knowledge sharing and collaboration. It identifies and addresses investments already in existence and describes how these investments can be further enhanced and implemented to support a distributed KM program. The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is leading the effort to identify and address these investments through the implementation of a distributed KM program that includes participants from ten of the major DOE national laboratories.
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How do we Remain Us in a Time of Change: Culture and Knowledge Management at NASA
This viewgraph representation presents an overview of findings of a NASA agency-wide Knowledge Management Team considering culture and knowledge management issues at the agency. Specific issues identified by the team include: (1) NASA must move from being a knowledge hoarding culture to a knowledge sharing culture; (2) NASA must move from being center focused to being Agency focused; (3) NASA must capture the knowledge of a departing workforce. Topics considered include: what must NASA know to remain NASA, what were previous forms of knowledge reproduction and how has technological innovations changed these systems, and what changes in funding and relationships between contractors and NASA affected knowledge reproduction.
Linde, Charlotte↗
Managing knowledge at the U.S. Space Agency
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Effective techniques for capturing, creating, and management knowledge at NASA
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Safety and Mission Assurance Knowledge Management Retention
This viewgraph presentation reviews the issues surrounding the management of knowledge in regards to safety and mission assurance. The JSC workers who were hired in the 1960's are slated to retire in the next two to three years. The experiences and knowledge of these NASA workers must be identified, and disseminated. This paper reviews some of the strategies that the S&MA is developing to capture that valuable institutional knowledge.
Johnson, Teresa A.↗
The Acquisition Process as a Vehicle for Enabling Knowledge Management in the Lifecycle of Complex Federal Systems
This white paper explores how to increase the success and operation of critical, complex, national systems by effectively capturing knowledge management requirements within the federal acquisition process. Although we focus on aerospace flight systems, the principles outlined within may have a general applicability to other critical federal systems as well. Fundamental design deficiencies in federal, mission-critical systems have contributed to recent, highly visible system failures, such as the V-22 Osprey and the Delta rocket family. These failures indicate that the current mechanisms for knowledge management and risk management are inadequate to meet the challenges imposed by the rising complexity of critical systems. Failures of aerospace system operations and vehicles may have been prevented or lessened through utilization of better knowledge management and information management techniques.
Stewart, Helen↗
Robotics Technologies on Knowledge Management Information Tool (KM-IT) Platform - 16465
The Knowledge Management Information Tool (KM-IT) is a web-based system developed to maintain and preserve the deactivation and decommissioning (D and D) knowledge base across the Department of Energy (DOE) complex. The system was developed by the Applied Research Center (ARC) at Florida International University (FIU) with the support of the D and D community, including the DOE Office of Environmental Management (DOE EM), and with the active collaboration and support of the DOE's Energy Facility Contractors Group (EFCOG). The KM-IT system is a D and D community driven system tailored to serve the technical issues faced by the D and D workforce across the DOE Complex. New information, including vendors and technologies related to D and D, are researched and added to KM-IT on an ongoing basis. In late 2014, DOE EM provided a database of 471 robotic technologies, originally developed by NuVision Engineering and Cogentus Consulting, with a request to evaluate the potential for integrating the data into the KM-IT framework for ongoing hosting/maintenance of the information. All of the data from the original database as well as photographs, documents, and videos are now available on KM-IT. (authors)
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Nuclear Energy Fuel Cycle Knowledge Management Strategy
A strategy for the development of a Knowledge Management Pilot Program for the Nuclear Energy Fuel Cycle Program at Sandia National Laboratories.
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MSFC Propulsion Systems Department Knowledge Management Project
This slide presentation reviews the Knowledge Management (KM) project of the Propulsion Systems Department at Marshall Space Flight Center. KM is needed to support knowledge capture, preservation and to support an information sharing culture. The presentation includes the strategic plan for the KM initiative, the system requirements, the technology description, the User Interface and custom features, and a search demonstration.
Caraccioli, Paul A.↗
Biodefense Knowledge Management System
After the Amerithrax attacks, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recognized the need to link technical scientific information with law enforcement and national security information in the fight against bioterrorism. The Biodefense Knowledge Center (BKC) was formed to provide timely analysis of technical biodefense-related topics to support DHS and its customers in the interagency. The Biodefense Knowledge Management System (BKMS) was created as the backbone for information management within the BKC. It is a scalable, web-based knowledge management system for organizing disparate data sources. By combining information from 35+ data sources, the BKMS provides a searchable repository for technical information including scientific reports, journal articles, news articles, research funding databases, patent databases, and genomic datasets. The current system contains over 58 million documents and 450 million genomic records, and operates at several classification levels.
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Knowledge reuse for innovation - the missing focus in knowledge management: results of a case analysis at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Research on knowledge management focuses on the capture, transfer, and resuse of knowledge.
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Knowledge management information tool analytics with distributed database engine - 15737
The D and D KM-IT is a web-based knowledge management information tool custom built for the deactivation and decommissioning (D and D) user community. The system allows interested users to post information which goes through a custom work flow. To better improve the performance and user experience, the analysis of server logs is being conducted using MongoDB. MongoDB is a document database that provides high performance, high availability, and easy scalability. Objectives: - Feasibility study of Distributed Database Engine, MongoDB for web analytics; - Analyze server logs to evaluate D and D KM-IT module usage; - Generate useful information from the analysis. Method: - The server logs were loaded and stored in MongoDB for analysis; - Analysis and visualization was performed using NodeJS and Java Script library. Results: - It was possible to store log files in MongoDB; - Log files with different time stamps and groups from different servers can be aggregated; - Queries can be written to extract meaningful information from aggregated log files (e.g. users from different countries/organizations). Conclusions: - MongoDB is useful for server log analytics as the analyst can immediately access, analyze, and visualize MongoDB data based on the requirements; - The information can be extracted to develop custom reports; - Optimized queries can be run for fast data access. Path forward: - Custom queries need to be developed to extract information leading to improved user information.
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Architecting an approach to knowledge management
This paper sets forth an architectural approach to the design, development, creation, and implementation of knowledge management at a specific organization.
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