[Session at Educause Southeast Regional Conference, Jacksonville, FL June 2-4, 2008]
NASA’s IT circumstance: “complex, sprawling, and expensive environment” IT expenses account for 13% of the annual budget. Bolger highlighted their enterprise architecture, a blueprint for where you want to go and a plan for getting there.
They are attempting to address:
- security issues
- need to support collaboration across centers and programs
- proliferation of tools (2,500 applications)
- $2.2B, but don’t have a handle/control over the way many expenditures are classed
- inconsistent understanding of how IT is managed
NASA’s IT key principles:
- enable NASA’s mission, buy before build
- integration, efficiencies, collaboration
- business case
- secure solutions
Transforming work:
- clarify role of CIOs
- increase visibility in spending
- how much consolidation, centralization
- governance
- align to meet customer needs
Anticipated outcomes:
- seamless deployment across centers
- right beneficial IT solution
- build trust of CIOs
