July- August 2016CIOAPPLICATIONS.COM9Revolutionizing the Aerospace Sector with Cloudis to provide crews of long-duration missions with an expert medical knowledge base capable of aiding the crew with any medical issue, rather than relying on medical guidance from experts back on Earth. The application benefits on our home planet could be incalculable.The Road Ahead Lies in Data ScienceData science holds the keys to the future of the work we do at NASA. The agency just recently hired its first data scientist, who is responsible for identifying new tools and analytics to tease out new insights from NASA's vast store houses of data. Every mission, instrument and person produces data. How we manage this data is a critical challenge. Working with our data scientist, we're building and refining our agency-wide data capabilities to address the growing challenges of identifying, storing, accessing, analyzing and archiving the massive amounts of data we collect everyday--not to mention our legacy data systems. We have sophisticated science instruments on our missions that collect data in volumes that exceed our current capacity to store and downstream back to Earth. At NASA, we're making tough choices to dump data on orbit that is outside the scope of immediate mission priorities. We'll never know what insights and discoveries about our universe might have been lurking in the data we didn't keep. We're working to keep the conversation elevated across NASA to address ways to embrace Big Data and Big Computing with fresh eyes. In fact, we're using innovative Big Data pilots to help NASA's mission directorates further their goals. We're developing data integration and data discovery techniques to further data analytics and visualization of data in a more timely fashion to create actionable information and insight.CIO as a Strategic PartnerThe role of the CIO in the federal government is an ever changing role. NASA's Office of the Chief Information Officer is seen as a strategic partner rather than merely a provider of IT devices and software. CIOs must ensure excellence in all aspects of organizational IT, from infrastructure to help desk support, as well as business leadership and guidance. I am focused on enabling the mission of NASA and servings as a trusted advisor to agency leadership on the direction of information management and cybersecurity. Cloud helps shorten the time to solution by being able to scale up and down quickly to solve problems of varying sizesRenee Wynn
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