TxP: Federated Data Discovery and Content Creation (FDDCC) KDP-Formulation (ITMX)
Description
The FDDCC project is guided by a set of core objectives aimed at transforming how data is accessed, managed, and utilized across the agency. These objectives focus on enhancing data discoverability, ensuring secure access, improving system scalability, and fostering a user-centered experience.
Detailed example
a unified search interface
AI / analytics pattern
Generative AI: AI that generates new or synthetic content (e.g., images, videos, audio, text, code).
Automation level / stage
a) Pre-deployment – The use case is in a development or acquisition status.
Expected benefit
NASA has amassed a significant trove of data that holds the potential to drive advancements across numerous domains. However, the organization faces significant challenges in harnessing this potential. Much of its valuable data remains trapped within isolated legacy systems, creating silos that hinder efficient access and use. This segmentation is further complicated by the dual locations of these systems – both in the cloud and on-premises – with each presenting its unique set of access challenges due to firewalls, security control boundaries and other barriers. Numerous distributed systems within NASA provide localized search functions for their specific datasets. These capabilities, which cater to both structured and unstructured data, highlight the latent potential and need for a comprehensive approach that can unify and streamline data and information access across the entire organization. By developing a unified search interface, implementing robust identity and access management, creating a comprehensive data catalog, and building a scalable infrastructure, the FDDCC project seeks to empower users to efficiently find, access, and manage data. Additionally, the project emphasizes user satisfaction through continuous feedback and iterative improvements, ensuring that the platform meets the evolving needs of the agency.
Controls / human review
ATO: Not reported; PIA: Not published