jeff davis top coder 12 3 2012 final

Human Health and PerformanceExploring Space | Enhancing Life

Collaboration and Open Innovation at NASA

TopCoder December 3, 2012

Jeffrey R. Davis, MDElizabeth E. Richard

Human Health and PerformanceExploring Space | Enhancing Life 2

Organizational Approach

• Discussion Topics– Strategy to Execution and Results

• Human Health and Performance organization• Strategic plan and implementation• Open Innovation Pilots and Results• NASA Human Health and Performance Center• NASA Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation

– Forward Work• Solution Management Tool• Human Capital Discussion Points


Human Health and Performance

• Human Health and Performance - Exploring Space, Enhancing Life– Space and Clinical Operations

• Health care and medical systems

– Biomedical Research and Environmental Sciences• Physiological, environmental and behavioral effects of spaceflight

– Human Systems Engineering and Development• Human centered design (hardware/software), human factors, food systems

• Human-centered risk management– Space Flight Human System standards and requirements

• Strategy formulation and execution– Open collaboration and innovation management– Public-private partnerships


Minimum necessary services· Assumptions

· Program need to reduce costs· Program buy it by the yard

· Characteristics· Outsourcing· Minimal R&D· Few partners

HQ lead office for life sciences· Assumption:

· Low likelihood of returning in next 10 years

· Characteristics· Central budget, Fundamental

research, NRA’s, grants· NASA funded partnerships· Some institutional costs

provided by program Partner/shared services model· Assumptions

· Core capabilities not funded by institution

· Rapid external pace of change· Characteristics

· Consulting, high-end expertise,· Partners fill in low CRL/TRL work· Leverage with partners

Current state· Assumptions

· Current resources, no growth· Characteristics

· Focused R+D on TRL/CRL 4-6· Inflation, escalation erode content· Little low TRL/CRL work

Strategic Initiatives

2006 Visioning Workshop



• 2007 SLSD Strategic Plan

– Mission Statement“To optimize human health and productivity for space exploration“

– Vision Statement"To become the recognized world leader in human health, performance and productivity for space exploration”

– Strategic Goalso Manage balanced internal/external portfolioo Drive health innovationso Drive human system integration innovationso Educate and inspire

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• 2012 HH&P Strategic Plan– Mission

“HH&P capabilities enable optimization of human health and performance throughout all phases of spaceflight”

– Vision “HH&P leads the world in human health and performance

innovations for life in space and on Earth” Since 2007, we have also made significant advances

– External collaboration and implementation of new business models within the directorate and the Agency

– Established two virtual centers, the NASA Human Health and Performance Center and the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation.

– 2012 Strategy builds upon these successes to address the Agency’s increased emphasis on societal relevance and being a leader in research and development and innovative business and communications practices

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Balanced Portfolio – portfolio mapping

• Portfolio mapping – Dr. Gary Pisano, Harvard Business School (HBS) o “Which Kind of Collaboration is Right for You” –

Harvard Business Review, December 2008o Workshop conducted by Dr. Pisano with NASA –

Wyle leadership team June - July 2009o Analyzed 12 gaps for collaborative opportunity

– clarified gaps for internal or external development


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Portfolio Analysis: Mapping - Models of Collaboration

From Gary Pisano, Harvard Business School


Internal Innovation – “Elite Circle”

• Internal Innovation Projects

o New development – intravenous fluid from potable water

o Modified technology – colorimetric water analysis (formerly a device to evaluate paint color)


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Exploration Medical Capability

IntraVenous fluid GENeration for exploration (IVGEN)

PRODUCE USP GRADE 0.9% NORMAL SALINE FROM IN SITU RESOURCES

• IV fluid required to respond to medical contingencies

• Filter to generate fluid incurs a smaller mass and volume cost than the actual fluid

• System based on deionization and sterilizing filters

FLIGHT TEST: MAY 4-7, 2010


Environmental Monitoring - Colorimetric Water Quality Monitoring Kit

Hardware Description• Solution is a simple, compact, hand-held device that

reliably and rapidly measures key water quality indicators in-flight

• Water sample is passed through membrane cartridge resulting in color change on membrane surface in the presence of silver or iodine

• Commercially available Diffuse Reflectance Spectrophotometer (DRS) measures magnitude of color change, which is proportional to the amount of analyte present in sample volume

• CSPE water quality monitoring kit was delivered to ISS on STS 128/17A


External innovation - open

• Why open collaboration/innovation?• Joy’s Law

• “No Matter Who You Are, Most of the Smartest People Work for Someone Else”

– Bill Joy, Cofounder Sun Microsystems

• The Causal Explanation for Joy’s Law• Knowledge is unevenly distributed in society - Fredrich von Hayek

(1945)• Knowledge is sticky - Eric von Hippel (1994)

from Karim Lakhani, PhD Harvard Business School


Open Innovation

• Open innovation and collaboration– four pilot projects– utilized the gaps from G Pisano workshop– Conducted fall of 2009 – fall 2010

• InnoCentive- posts individual challenges/gaps to their established network of solvers (~300,000)

• financial award if the solution is found viable by the posting entity

• Yet2.com- acts as an actual technology scout bringing together buyers and sellers of technologies

• Option to develop partnerships

• TopCoder - open innovation software company with a large network of solvers (~300,000) • variety of skill-based software coding competitions

• NASA@work-internal collaboration platform leveraging expertise found across NASA’s 10 centers


NASA Pavilion on InnoCentive

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Global Appeal-

2900 solvers80 Countries


InnoCentive Pilot Results

Challenge Title Ctr Posted Deadline ProjRms Sub Award

DateAward

Amount

Improved Barrier Layers … Keeping Food Fresh in Space

JSC - SLSD 12/18/2009 2/28/2010 174 22 5/7/2010 $11,000

Mechanism for a Compact Aerobic Resistive Exercise Device

JSC - SLSD 12/18/2009 2/28/2010 564 95 5/14/2010 $20,000

Data-Driven Forecasting of Solar Events

JSC - SLSD 12/22/2009 3/22/2010 579 11 5/13/2010 $30,000

Coordination of Sensor Swarms for Extraterrestrial Research

LRC 2/27/2010 4/26/2010 423 37 6/4/2010 $18,000 (3)

Medical Consumables Tracking GRC 5/17/2010 7/27/2010 365 56 10/28/2010 $15,000 (3)

Augmenting the Exercise Experience

JSC - SLSD 5/27/2010 7/27/2010 229 18 9/20/2010 $10,000

Simple Microgravity Laundry System

JSC - EA 5/27/2010 7/27/2010 598 108 9/21/2010 $7,500


Yet2.com example: Bone Imaging

Germany 6

Austria 1

Japan 7

Canada 1

France 6

Israel 1

Australia 3

Belgium 1

UK 5

Switzerland 4

Sweden 1

USA 15

Total 51


yet2.com Pilot ResultsTechnical Need No. of total

replies/leadsNo. of hits (initial interest)

Active leads

Bone Density Measurement 51 793 5

Monitoring of Water and Biocides

61 2003 8

Radioprotectants 28 475 6

Exoterrestrial Life Differentiation

31 1596 1

Food Packaging/Protection 29 173 5

Portable Imaging 34 581 5


TopCoder Experience

• Opportunity presented to NASA by Harvard Business School

• Research project to compare outcomes of collaborative and competitive teams

• NASA provided the problem statement • Optimize algorithm that supports medical kit design

• Competition began on 11/04/2009 and lasted approximately 10 days

• 2800 solutions were submitted by 480 individuals

• Useful algorithm developed and incorporated into NASA model

• Team felt this process was more efficient than internal development

• Next steps – NASA Tournament Lab with HBS and TopCoder developed to seek many novel optimization algorithms for ISS


NASA@work


NASA@work Center Participation


NASA@Work

• Early Findings• Connected 10 NASA centers horizontally (peer to

peer)• Connected areas of expertise previously untapped• Enthusiasm for the pilot and willingness to use again• Positive comments about NASA trying a new business

model• Solid solutions for some technical problems


What is……..

What is……..

What is NASA Tournament Lab?

Create novel, high quality working software for algorithmic / computational Challenges

Contribute towards the development of empirically validated science

of innovation tournaments

Utilize the principles of distributed innovation to allow participants worldwide to contribute to solving mission challenges by developing innovative computational algorithms.

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Two Objectives –

Operational Virtual Facility developed between NASA, Harvard, and TopCoder

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What is……..


Other Collaboration Methods

• Rice Business Plan Competition– 42 MBA/technical student teams– Offered life science prize for earth/space benefits

• 5 teams awarded since 2008• 2 teams have secured funding

– Series A funding– USDA grant

• NASA Human Health and Performance Center• Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation


Beyond the pilot stage and forward work

• Organizational home for collaboration• Virtual Centers

– NASA Human Health and Performance Center• Products and projects

– Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation• NASA Prizes (example using all platforms)• Other federal agency prizes• NASA@Work - expanded participation

– Solution Mechanism Guidance Tool– Human Capital considerations


HH&P Innovation Initiatives


NASA Human Health and Performance Center

• Established October 2010• Membership

– 117 members: http://nhhpc.nasa.gov– Three workshops

• January 2011 – Collaborative Innovation: Strategies and Best Practices• October 2011 - Connecting Through Collaboration• June 2012 - mHealth - Smart Media and Health: Applications Benefiting

Life in Space and on Earth• Planned new workshop for public-private partnerships and accelerated

innovation – June 12, 2013– Innovation Lecture Series– Member to Member Connects– Collaborative project opportunities posted by members– Projects organized and tracked by NASA new initiatives

http://nhhpc.nasa.gov/


Inside the “Innovation Box”The CoECI• A multi-organizational entity stood

up at the behest of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to further advance the use of open innovation methods across the federal government, in particular, the use of prizes and challenges. – CoECI is HQ owned; HH&P supports

operations– External Engagements: Reimbursable

Interagency Agreements (IAA’s) executed at HQ

– Internal Focus: Organizations fund challenges for InnoCentive and yet2.com

HH&P Collaborative Innovation


CoECI – NASA

• NASA@work Challenges in Development:– David Fitts: Utilizing NASA@work in conjunction with Human Systems Integration

effort (challenge topic: metric development)– Kerry Lee: Seeking solutions that will protect astronauts from Galactic Cosmic

Rays on long duration missions (challenge topic: radiation protection)– All OCT funded

HH&P: Challenges Close to Home

Non-invasive Measurement of Intracranial Pressure

• Challenge Topic: sought to identify an efficient non-invasive technology to measure ICP

• Results: three submissions were awarded (one recommended use of EEG and the other two provided new leads of researchers in this field (Dr. Heldt & Dr. Alloca)


CoECI – NASA

• Tech Scout, yet2.com– Challenge Owner: Jennifer Villareal,

Susi Zanello– Non-invasive Intracranial Pressure

(ICP) Monitoring System: The aim is to find a novel, non-invasive technological approach to intra-cranial pressure (ICP) measurement. NASA prefers new technologies, but variations of existing technologies that represent major improvements relevant to the extreme environments of space and planetary exploration will be considered. Conventional hospital-setting equipment, instrumentation intended to be miniaturized, and for medical-care applications by trained but non-medical personnel for use in remote environments will also be considered.

– Schedule: Live on yet2.com– OCT Funded:



CoECI - NASA

• NASA Innovation Pavilion, InnoCentive– Challenge Owner: Jennifer

Villareal, Susi Zanello– Challenge Summary: Theoretical,

NASA would like to monitor ICP non-invasively with an accuracy that is close to the terrestrial gold standard of lumbar puncture.

– HH&P Funded: Partnership between research and operations

– Schedule: Little further behind.



CoECI - NASA

• NASA Tournament Lab (NTL)– Challenge Owner: Todd Schlegel– Challenge: Portable Electrocardiogram

App• Create a mobile, Android-based 12-lead

ECG data viewer• Advance cheap, mobile medical

applications• Implications for both space medicine and

3rd-world countries• Used a range of competition types for full

application build

– Schedule: August, 2011; still in work, Bluetooth technology changed, caused hiccups

– Prize: $22K– Funded by NTL, HEOMD



CoECI – other federal agencies

• NASA Tournament Lab (NTL)– USPTO: image processing contest

designed to help determine how labels on a drawing relate to patent text intended to increase productivity and reduce extra scanning efforts.

– CMS: Produce a shared services solution that States can use to verify Medicaid provider eligibility.

– CMS2: in work– EPA: in work

Other Agency Agreements


NASA@Work• NASA@work is an agency-wide, virtual platform

that seeks to increase innovation by fostering collaboration within our community through the contribution of interactive discussions and the submission of solutions to posted challenges

• Challenge Types for NASA@work includegenerating new ideas, developing newconcepts, adding structure and/ordefinition to challenge or problem

• To date, have run over 35 challenges withover 65 winners across all NASA Centers

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The NASA@work Process: • Suggested challenge submitted directly

into https://nasa.innocentive.com • The NASA@work Program Champion and

the Innocentive.com support team develop and refine challenge (identify Challenge Owner) (2-3 weeks)

• Challenge is reviewed by an assigned Technical Reviewer

• Content of challenge is submitted through Export Control if required

• Once challenge is open, Challenge Owner actively participates in discussion and responds to questions and comments that solvers may have throughout the active challenge cycle (4-6 weeks)

• Once challenge is closed, Challenge Owner completes evaluation of submitted solutions, selects winner(s), and completes assessments that evaluate utility of the platform (2 weeks)

Quick Facts about NASA@work:• As of August, 2012, have over 8150 solvers in the community• Since re-launch in November 2011, have experienced a

• 33% growth in the solver community• over 160% increase in active participation from solvers on the

platform (over 460 active solvers)

https://nasa.innocentive.com/


NASA@Work*Steady Increase in Number of Solvers

and Active Solvers in October

10/5/2012 10/12/2012 10/19/2012 10/26/2012 10/5/2012 10/12/2012 10/19/2012 10/26/2012

Solvers

8405 8428 8474 8505

Active Solvers

305 310 313 316

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NASA@work Community of Solvers


Solution Mechanism Guidance Tool

• Under development within HH&P– Determine how to use established and novel

problem solving tools for problem solving and project management

– Working group of multiple disciplines– Will identify opportunities and barriers, and

training needed to implement– Planned test of tool February 2013


Human Capital

• Areas for discussion– Culture

• “not invented here”

– Rewards• Extrinsic • Intrinsic

– Time• Multi-disciplinary participation (e.g. NASA@Work) beyond ideation

challenges (true projects)

– Training• Project management training that includes novel tools• For example, newly established Human System Academy offering

four certificate programs (one is in Innovation)


Summary

• NASA’s HH&P organizational approach to collaboration and open innovation– Strategy required to drive change – New problem solving techniques need to be

identified – collaboration and open innovation– Start with pilots and communicate results– Develop a tool to guide project managers in selecting

problem-solving tools from existing and new approaches

– Strategic communication

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