Strategic Planning Framework

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Strategic Planning Framework
National Policy and Direction
Programs Projects
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Roadmap Integration
Roadmaps will be integrated into a unified NASA
strategic architecture

• Individual roadmaps establish priorities,
  options, and recommended approaches for achieving
  NASA strategic objectives
• High-level products developed by discipline
  experts, managers, visionaries
• Updates expected every 3-5 years or as
  discoveries/progress warrants
• Individual roadmaps are not implementation plans
  and are not funded
• The integrated strategic architecture will
  assimilate the roadmaps to provide the following
• A framework for Agency-wide decisions and
  priorities
• The basis for top-level Agency funding decisions
• The technical foundation of the Strategic Plan
• Architectural options will be developed and
  assessed for presentation to the NASA Strategic
  Planning Council
• Trade studies and affordability analyses will
  assess costs and benefits of various options,
  with feedback to roadmap teams
• Each architecture will identify a critical path
  of achievements and developments
• Architecture will be continuously adjusted and
  used as a tool for Agency management and budget
  decisions

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Strategic Architecture What Is it?

• The integrated strategic architecture will
  comprise the technical foundation of the
  strategic plan
• Strategic Planning Council is the decision-making
  body
• Also a management tool - continuously updated
  based on programmatic decisions and progress
• Assembles program elements and major missions
  drawn from roadmaps
• Preserves roadmap team priorities, structures,
  and sequences
• Rough timeline of Agency-level achievements,
  decisions, developments
• Depicts major options and branch points, and
  identifies information or discoveries that will
  drive choices
• Identifies major capability and infrastructure
  needs
• Derived from strategic roadmaps, incorporating
  findings of capability roadmaps
• Map into Agency core competencies and human
  capital priorities
• Several options will be prepared and assessed
  prior to presentation to SPC
• Options will be scenario-based to enable
  comparisons and identify inter-roadmap choices,
  priorities, and decisions
• Developed and iterated by integration and
  synthesis teams
• Incorporate NRC reviews of individual roadmaps
• NAC summer workshop creates final architectural
  options to carry forward

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Integration Steps - Detail

• Step 1 Assemble and analyze information across
  roadmaps
• Identify priorities, key relationships, and
  dependencies
• Derive key strategic decisions, implications, and
  natural sequences/precedence
• Interact with roadmap teams (SRM and CRM) as
  necessary
• Input data into relational database
• Step 2 Create draft architectures for comparison
  
• Emphasize major strategic relationships and
  decisions
• Prepare integrated architectural elements and
  options
• Scientific achievements - robotic and human
• Expansion of robotic/human presence
• Understanding space environment and effects on
  humans
• Assemble and assess draft architectures
• Identify scenarios to be used for comparison
  and evaluation
• Consistent with NASA objectives, policies, and
  roadmap priorities
• Top-level assessment of affordability,
  achievements,
• Step 3 Present, discuss, iterate, downselect,
  and finalize architectures
• Synthesis team workshops in June and July

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Integration Process Flow

• Capabilities and
• Agency guidance
• Policy
• Budget
• Priorities

Strategic Roadmaps
Identify relationships, dependencies, sequences
Synthesize and assess architectural options
Iterate with Roadmap Teams

• Strategic Decisions
• New Initiatives
• Strategic Plan

Steering Group Review (Roadmap co-chairs)
Strategic Planning Council
NAC Workshop
Strategic Architecture
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Top-Level Milestones

• Release New Age of Exploration (Agency
  objectives) Jan 2005
• Integration team meetings start Feb 11
• Draft capability roadmaps Feb-Mar
• Draft strategic roadmaps (content) Apr 15
• Synthesis workshop 1 Jun 15
• Steering group review Jun 30
• Roadmap drafts to NRC Jun 1
• Synthesis workshop 2 Jul 15
• NAC summer workshop Aug 15
• Architecture reviews and completion Sep 1-30
• Roadmap reports complete (text) Oct 1
• Final architectures to SPC Oct 1
• Agency strategic plan release Jan 23 2006