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DOE OSTI2016

Knowledge management: Role of the the Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC)

The Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is an information analysis center that collects, archives, evaluates, synthesizes and distributes information, data and codes that are used in various nuclear technology applications. RSICC retains more than 2,000 software packages that have been provided by code developers from various federal and international agencies. RSICC’s customers (scientists, engineers, and students from around the world) obtain access to such computing codes (source and/or executable versions) and processed nuclear data files to promote on-going research, to ensure nuclear and radiological safety, and to advance nuclear technology. The role of such information analysis centers is critical for supporting and sustaining nuclear education and training programs both domestically and internationally, as the majority of RSICC’s customers are students attending U.S. universities. Additionally, RSICC operates a secure CLOUD computing system to provide access to sensitive export-controlled modeling and simulation (M&S) tools that support both domestic and international activities. This presentation will provide a general review of RSICC’s activities, services, and systems that support knowledge management and education and training in the nuclear field.

Valentine, Timothy↗
DOE OSTI2014

International Conference on Human Resource Development for Nuclear Power Programmes: Strategies for Education and Training, Networking and Knowledge Management

The report includes a summary of the overall workshop results and also copies of the two papers and interactive presentations given by BNL staff at the meeting. The two presentations were titled ''The value of the Junior Professional Officer (JPO) program to the IAEA and its Member States'' and ''Promoting intercultural competencies''.

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DOE OSTI2019

Managing Knowledge Over Time for Supporting Radioactive Waste Geological Disposal Project Development - 19028

Projects designed to define, build, operate and monitor radioactive waste disposal solutions require the transmission of knowledge over several decades and the preservation of memory over several centuries. This is particularly acute for the geological disposal project 'Cigeo' led by the French national radioactive waste management agency (Andra) as far as the requirements in terms of reversibility lead to the choice of an incremental design that allows to integrate learning resulting from continuous improvement of knowledge. For instance, for robustness purposes, Cigeo is designed on the basis of currently proven technologies, but its step-by-step construction in successive stages must make it possible to integrate improvements derived from the scientific and technical progress as well as from experience feedback from its exploitation. In the field of industrial activity, a significant proportion of the knowledge and skills implemented by employees of a company are not known or even identified by the human resources organization or the mid-management staff. This is mainly due to the fact that (i) the organized knowledge-sharing is often based on documentary tools but little on social modalities and (ii) the organization of knowledge is mostly cross-cutting to the managerial lines. To overcome this bias, a global and integrated approach to knowledge management is currently the focus of Andra's specific efforts. Cross-disciplinary groups and close intergenerational links positioned throughout the life of the projects aim specifically at continuous and participative knowledge sharing, capitalization and transmission. Then, devices aiming at systematic dissemination of and access to knowledge support experience feedback and provide unified collaboration, traceability and decision-support at all scales. (authors)

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DOE OSTI2017

Safeguards Knowledge Management & Retention at U.S. National Laboratories.

In 2017, four U.S. National Laboratories collaborated on behalf of DOE/NNSA to explore the safeguards knowledge retention problem, identify possible approaches, and develop a strategy to address it. The one-year effort consisted of four primary tasks. First, the project sought to identify critical safeguards information at risk of loss. Second, a survey and workshop were conducted to assess nine U.S. National Laboratories' efforts to determine current safeguards knowledge retention practices and challenges, and identify best practices. Third, specific tools were developed to identify and predict critical safeguards knowledge gaps and how best to recruit in order to fill those gaps. Finally, based on findings from the first three tasks and research on other organizational approaches to address similar issues, a strategy was developed on potential knowledge retention methods, customized HR policies, and best practices that could be implemented across the National Laboratory Complex.

96 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND PRESERVATION↗
NASA NTRS2006

Knowledge management in the engineering design environment

The Aerospace and Defense industry is experiencing an increasing loss of knowledge through workforce reductions associated with business consolidation and retirement of senior personnel. Significant effort is being placed on process definition as part of ISO certification and, more recently, CMMI certification. The process knowledge in these efforts represents the simplest of engineering knowledge and many organizations are trying to get senior engineers to write more significant guidelines, best practices and design manuals. A new generation of design software, known as Product Lifecycle Management systems, has many mechanisms for capturing and deploying a wider variety of engineering knowledge than simple process definitions. These hold the promise of significant improvements through reuse of prior designs, codification of practices in workflows, and placement of detailed how-tos at the point of application.

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NASA NTRS2002

Making Sense of Rocket Science - Building NASA's Knowledge Management Program

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has launched a range of KM activities-from deploying intelligent "know-bots" across millions of electronic sources to ensuring tacit knowledge is transferred across generations. The strategy and implementation focuses on managing NASA's wealth of explicit knowledge, enabling remote collaboration for international teams, and enhancing capture of the key knowledge of the workforce. An in-depth view of the work being done at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) shows the integration of academic studies and practical applications to architect, develop, and deploy KM systems in the areas of document management, electronic archives, information lifecycles, authoring environments, enterprise information portals, search engines, experts directories, collaborative tools, and in-process decision capture. These systems, together, comprise JPL's architecture to capture, organize, store, and distribute key learnings for the U.S. exploration of space.

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NASA NTRS1999

Knowledge Management at JPL

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NASA NTRS1990

Concurrent engineering design and management knowledge capture

The topics are presented in viewgraph form and include the following: real-time management, personnel management, project management, conceptual design and decision making; the SITRF design problem; and the electronic-design notebook.

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DOE OSTI2017

Knowledge Management in the Field of Nuclear Energy - How to Bridge the Gap between Retiring Workforce and Next Generations - 17101

The current phase-out decision of the German Federal Government and the 'Energiewende' - resulting from the Fukushima Daiichi Accident in 2011 - changed the nuclear market significantly. Together with the change in political and social attitude towards nuclear energy since 2002 it has contributed to a decline in technical expertise. This as well as the generation change in the nuclear technology lead to the risk of losing accumulated knowledge and experience which still are essential for the future - not only in Germany but in other countries - even though the focus in Germany will shift from operating to decommissioning, dismantling and radioactive waste management. A long-term strategy in order to preserve technical expertise to solve the forthcoming tasks in Germany was required. This strategy should include e.g. the implementation of technical programs not only for internal training of the staff but also for authorities. Together with authorities TUV NORD developed individual training concepts for a broad range of customers to preserve a transfer of know-how with the state-of-the-art in science and technology and even support international projects, especially in countries with less experience in the nuclear fields. Additionally, special data bases were developed in order to ensure the accessibility of long-term nuclear data storage. Furthermore technical conferences in different fields like decommissioning and radioactive waste disposal were established as an opportunity for knowledge exchange. Based on given examples it is being demonstrated how technical expertise can be preserved even though the field of nuclear energy in Germany has changed. (authors)

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NASA NTRS2004

Realtime Knowledge Management (RKM): From an International Space Station (ISS) Point of View

We are developing automated methods to provide realtime access to spacecraft domain knowledge relevant a spacecraft's current operational state. The method is based upon analyzing state-transition signatures in the telemetry stream. A key insight is that documentation relevant to a specific failure mode or operational state is related to the structure and function of spacecraft systems. This means that diagnostic dependency and state models can provide a roadmap for effective documentation navigation and presentation. Diagnostic models consume the telemetry and derive a high-level state description of the spacecraft. Each potential spacecraft state description is matched against the predictions of models that were developed from information found in the pages and sections in the relevant International Space Station (ISS) documentation and reference materials. By annotating each model fragment with the domain knowledge sources from which it was derived we can develop a system that automatically selects those documents representing the domain knowledge encapsulated by the models that compute the current spacecraft state. In this manner, when the spacecraft state changes, the relevant documentation context and presentation will also change.

Robinson, Peter I.↗
NASA NTRS2000

Expert Seeker: A People-Finder Knowledge Management System

The first objective for this report was to perform a comprehensive research of industry models currently being used for similar purposes, in order to provide the Center with ideas of what is being done in area by private companies and government agencies. The second objective was to evaluate the use of taxonomies or ontologies to describe and catalog the areas of expertise at GSFC. The creation of a knowledge taxonomy is necessary for information extraction in order for The Expert Seeker to adequately search and find experts in a particular area of expertise. The requirements to develop a taxonomy are: provide minimal descriptive text; have the appropriate level of abstration; facilitate browsing; ease of use and speed of data entry are critical for success; customized to the organization and its culture; extent of knowledge areas; expandable, so new skills could be develop; could be complemented with free text fields to allow users the option to describe their knowledge in detail.

Becerra-Fernandez, Irma↗