NASA ARC Internal Memo: NASA IT Labs First Annual Project Call

From: Centerwide Announcement
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 01:18 PM
To: ARC-cwdist
Subject: NASA IT Labs First Annual Project Call

Subject: NASA IT Labs First Annual Project Call
To: NASA Civil Servants and Contractors

What is Happening: IT Labs is the Technology and Innovation Program for the NASA Chief Technology Officer for Information Technology. The goal of IT Labs is to leverage expertise across the Agency to identify challenging problems, ideas, and solutions and integrate IT solutions and innovations into the Office of the Chief Information Officer service model. IT Labs wants to fund your innovative ideas for IT-related solutions that can be used across all NASA centers. NASA’s IT Labs Program http://labs.nasa.gov/ will be accepting proposals during its First Annual Project Call from May 14 through June 15, 2012. This is your chance to help solve challenging Information Technology problems and introduce new technologies across the Agency. If you have an idea, please coordinate with your NASA Center Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to submit a proposal on the IT Labs website. IT Labs will review all submissions and fund a limited number of projects.

Timing: The following is the schedule for this year’s Project Call.

5/14/12: Proposal submission opens @ 8:00 am (CDT)
5/17/12: IT Labs Question & Answer Session #1 1:30-2:30 pm CDT (more info here)
5/23/12: IT Labs Question & Answer Session #2 10:30-11:30 am CDT (more info here )
6/15/12: Proposal submission closes @ 5:00pm (CDT)
6/18/12: Proposal selection begins
7/9/12: Proposal selection complete and submitters notified of status

Benefits:

* Turn your IT-related ideas and innovative solutions into reality
* Help NASA make strategic investment decisions based on successful demonstration of your ideas
* Improve the Agency’s IT Architecture and Systems
* Collaborate with talented individuals across the Agency

Support: If you have any questions about the project call or the IT Labs Program please attend one of the Question and Answer sessions listed above, contact your Ames’ Center CTO for IT, Ray O’Brien, or the IT Labs Team. Additional information can also be found on our website at http://labs.nasa.gov .