Gianpaolo Balsamo’s Post

Great salespeople learn problems before ever talking about their solutions. This report lays out 7 key challenges faced by the NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration... 🚀 Challenge 1: Returning Humans to the Moon 🚀 Challenge 2: Improving Management of Major Programs and Projects 🚀 Challenge 3: Sustaining a Human Presence in Low Earth Orbit 🚀 Challenge 4: Maturing Information Technology Management and Security 🚀 Challenge 5: Improving Oversight and Management of Contracts, Grants, and Cooperative Agreements 🚀 Challenge 6: Attracting & Retaining a Highly Skilled & Diverse Workforce 🚀 Challenge 7: Addressing NASA's Outdated Infrastructure and Facilities These issues are long-standing, difficult challenges central to NASA’s core missions and likely will remain top challenges for years to come. 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 Each challenge begins with "Why This is a Challenge" then recaps "Progress in Addressing the Challenge" and finally ends with "Work Remaining to Address Challenge". Take the time to read these challenges before you ever suggest you want to support the NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA wants to buy from those they know care, and when you've taken the time to understand their challenges, you show NASA you care. ___________________________________ 🔥 Join 14,254 others and subscribe to our GovCon newsletter | https://lnkd.in/es6qfwgk 👀 Follow me (Neil McDonnell) on LinkedIn and hit the 🔔 on my profile to see more government contracting content like 28,035 other people do.

Hey STEM teachers! Are you familiar with NASA's Spinoff Website? It provides a collection of resources related to technological advancements and commercial products that were developed as spinoffs to NASA's work, made possible by NASA's Technology Transfer Program. Check out stories about the origin of common and/or really, really advanced, technologies. You can even search for innovations that were developed in your state and community. NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration #STEM #innovation #aerospace #spinoff #girlsinstem #womeninstem #scienceteacher #scienceteachers #engineer #engineering

The newest book in the NASA History Series is here: be sure to check out A Wartime Necessity: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and Other National Aeronautical Research Organizations’ Efforts at Innovation During World War II, edited by Alex M Spencer. World War II represented a turning point for government-industry cooperation and the role of applied research and development. While many NACA accomplishments during the war are well known, its history has received only limited attention from a handful of scholars. Each chapter of A Wartime Necessity has been writ­ten by a recognized authority in their field and the volume covers a broad range of topics associated with aeronautical research and development during the war. International contexts are of particular note in this publication, which includes chapters devoted to Japan and the Soviet Union. In each of the case studies we see how research and technology were critical to the war effort, how unique contexts shaped what was possible, and how institutions were adapting to a drastically changing world. Download the e-book: https://lnkd.in/enheyUPe

Rita Owens, of NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Technology Transfer Expansion and Strategic Partnerships Office, visited with students on campus yesterday. Owens, a data systems engineer who supports Data Governance and Stewardship under Data and Analytics Services, orchestrated two projects for PRIME’s ENGN2150: a miniaturized laser heterodyne radiometer and a miniaturized high-speed modulated x-ray source. https://lnkd.in/epGRTcc6

🚀🚀🚀 Big news today! "PALMO: An OVERFLOW Machine Learning Airfoil Performance Database" is LIVE! 🚀🚀🚀 ✅ 52,480 NACA 4-series OVERFLOW airfoil simulations made public for the aerospace community. ✅ Used by the AIAA Applied Surrogate Modeling Technical Committee as a benchmark dataset for machine learning development and testing. ✅ I'll be presenting a paper at AIAA SciTech this January showing accuracy of example surrogate models and downstream rotor performance modeling with OVERFLOW's actuator disk implementation. Many thanks to several groups and colleagues for their support and help in brainstorming the ideas behind this work! Nicholas Peters Tove Ågren Witold Koning Kristen Kallstrom Darrell Nieves Lugo NASA Ames Research Center NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration #RevolutionaryVerticalLiftTechnologyProject https://lnkd.in/eSiWs-C8

We’re constantly verifying our data. A new study with authors from around NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration and partner organizations confirms the data in the GISTEMP record are highly accurate. The study provided a rigorous accounting of uncertainty within the GISTEMP record. Uncertainty in science is important to understand, so we can maintain an accurate record despite imperfect instrumentation, the occasional pocket of missing data, and changes in collection methods. Read more about this research and how this summer stacked up in our temperature record: https://lnkd.in/eUUfV-Gn

If you wonder what Cloud-Native Geospatial is and how you can leverage it in your #GIS stack, this is the event for you! 🌐

AI for Earth: How NASA's Artificial Intelligence and Open Science Efforts Combat Climate Change - NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration: As extreme weather events increase around the world due to climate change, the need for further research into our warming planet has increased as well. For NASA, climate research involves not only conducting studies of these events, but also empowering outside researchers to do the same. The artificial intelligence (AI) efforts spearheaded by the agency offer a powerful tool to accomplish these goals. https://lnkd.in/eBtUkjui

Eric Berger's new book (great excerpt by Ars Technica) gets to how deep the problem is inside NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Phil McAlister is a national hero and kudos to William. Gerstenmaier for doing the right thing. I love our national space agency, but the group-think by the old guard at NASA is a problem. China is coming. The only way to beat China is to better leverage commercial entrepreneurs. We can't beat China by beating them at being better at socialism (big government programs). NASA needs to be doubling down on commercial partnerships. Instead NASA is like a deer in the headlights. We need a new generation of leadership at NASA that has conviction on commercial partnerships is needed. This is not a nice-to-have ... it is critical to our long-term national security. https://lnkd.in/eCPSEgpp

Did you know that #PLM Road Map & PDT NA 2024 even have a rocket scientist on the agenda? Today’s Speaker Spotlight is on NASA’s Terry Hill, who will bring us down to earth with a presentation on NASA's #digital engineering journey. Learn more at https://bit.ly/3x1uVFj NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration #PLM CIMdata #digitalengineering