Adapting Mission Assurance Workshop 2024

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November 13, 2024 (Wednesday)

8:30	Check-in at Visitor’s Center
9:00	Welcome and Opening Address Barbara Braun, The Aerospace Corporation Dr. Jay Bookbinder, Director of Programs and Projects at NASA's Ames Research Center
9:10	Keynote Address Elwood Agasid, Deputy Program Manager for Small Spacecraft Technology Program at NASA Ames Research Center
9:30	SESSION #1: ADAPTING MISSION ASSURANCE
9:30	NASA Heliophysics SmallSat Missions David Cheney, NASA
9:50	Adapting Space System Test Campaigns for High-Risk Posture Missions Nathan Whittenton, BAE Systems
10:10	Payload-Focused Mission Assurance Process for the Design Phase of Small Satellite in Perspective of New Space Alexander Schmidt, University of the Bundeswehr Munich
10:30	Panel Discussion
11:15	SESSION #2: ADAPTING LAUNCH ASSURANCE
11:15	Launch Verification Matrix Confidence Factor Doug Conley, The Aerospace Corporation
11:35	NSSL Phase 3 Mission Assurance Framework Madison Galvin, The Aerospace Corporation
11:55	Panel Discussion
12:10	Lunch and Poster Session
13:10	SESSION #3: ADAPTING QUALITY ASSURANCE
13:10	Challenging the Role of Quality Engineering in NASA Projects Stavros Katsas, NASA
13:30	Contracting Quality Early in the Lifecycle Using AS9145 Data Deliverables Jeannette Plante, NASA
13:50	Mission Assurance Applied to 7120.8 Programs Karol Grabczewski, JHU APL
14:10	Panel Discussion
14:40	Break with Failure Cake!
14:55	SESSION #4: NEW APPROACHES
14:55	Agile Ethos for Rapid Development Geoff Reber, The Aerospace Corporation
15:15	Mission Assurance for Artificial Intelligence Thomas Higgenbotham, C3.AI
15:35	Safety and Mission Assurance for Highly Constrained Projects Jesse Leitner, NASA
15:55	Panel Discussion
16:25	Special Topic: Failure Cake!
16:25	Dead Batteries In Antarctica Steven J. Pereira, JHU APL
16:45	Failure Cake Outbrief and Discussion
17:00	Wrap-up

November 14, 2024 (Thursday)

08:30	Check-in at Visitor’s Center
09:00	Outbrief of Day One Carrie O'Quinn, The Aerospace Corporation
09:15	SESSION #5 PARTS AND RELIABILITY
09:15	A Brief History of COTS and MIL-SPEC Parts, Risk and Reliability Jesse Leitner, NASA
09:35	COTS EEE Part Data Sharing Brian Kosinski, The Aerospace Corporation
09:55	Hardware Assembly Assurance Activities: Radiation Testing of the Handheld Universal Lunar Camera (HULC) for Artemis Michael Campola, NASA
10:15	Panel Discussion
10:45	Break
11:00	SESSION #6 MANAGING RISK
11:00	Implementation of Flexible Risk Philosophy and Tracking Methods on Class C/D Programs Madison Telles & Patrick Klansek, Millennium Space
11:20	U.S. Space Command Model Based Mission Assurance Carolyn Thomas, US Space Command
11:40	Adaptive Mission Assurance Assessments Scott Hotaling, RMC Global
12:00	Panel Discussion
12:30	Lunch and Poster Session
13:30	SESSION #7 CALLS TO ACTION
13:30	Breakout room discussions of topics discussed during workshop
14:30	Outbrief of breakout sessions
14:55	Wrap-up
15:00	Adjourn / NASA tours