Summary

SSAI takes pride in being an industry leader in the creating, improving, and maintaining of countless, varied software systems across numerous government agencies. We provide complete software life-cycle services — from requirements collection, software development, exhaustive testing, software deployment and production, to long-term maintenance and upgrade implementation. Our software engineering expertise reflects in its functionality and versatile uses to include spaceflight, as well as airborne and ground system instruments.

Major Accomplishments

SSAI Staff Develop Cutting Edge Technology for NASA’s Digital Transformation Initiative

SSAI provides NASA’s Langley Research Center with a project-focused support infrastructure to optimize management insight and enhance project efficacy. NASA Langley Project Support Office (PSO) leads the project and and supported by three SSAI software developers, two of whom received SSAI’s 2019 Chairman’s Innovation Award. The development team leverages prior experience from developing the SAGE III Payload Operations Center (SPOC) to rapidly prototype the Open Project Management Framework (OPMF).

The SSAI-supported Open Project Management Framework (OPMF) provides access to near real-time project management information across multi-disciplines from authoritative sources. Using Tableau-based graphics, OPMF provides NASA management with a dashboard interface of leading indicators of project planning and control (PP&C) information. Furthermore, the site consists of dashboard graphics, which include information such as request for action trending, mass trends, peak and average power trends, monthly scorecards, schedules, financial updates, and much more.

The NASA Langley PSO plans to make OPMF available as part of the business service infrastructure in NASA Langley’s OnePlace — a LaRC website that serves as a one-stop shop for business automation needs. All the while, SSAI continues to maintain and expand the existing OPMF infrastructure to maximize use of the tool’s capabilities including: leveraging data from existing OnePlace PSO products such as the NPR Tailoring Application, the Langley Action Tracking System, and the Lessons Learned Database.