NASA is soliciting ideas from its employees for new ways to track the spread of Covid-19
They’re largely coming from our scientific and engineering workforce. For the most part, we asked for ideas in three specific areas. One around personal protective equipment, one around ventilation and one around monitoring and forecasting of Covid-19 spread and environmental and societal impacts. The nature of those topics draws from our scientific and engineering workforce. We did invite any other ideas folks had.
We really have to assess the ideas themselves. I don’t want to call out any one idea in particular. We’re really trying to connect them right now to other activities going on in the agency, so it’s a little premature to say this particular idea is a good one.We are reaching out to experts around the agency who have knowledge of specific areas that touch upon these. We have folks in sterilization, because we sterilize spacecraft before we launch them.
We have teams that are looking through the ideas through those lenses. Then if there are things that come out that we feel like NASA isn’t the proper entity to lead, but its more appropriate for another agency to consider, we’ll be sharing those with colleagues in other agencies. Then it’s a matter of implementation. We’re looking at capabilities we have at our centers. We’re looking at resources, both people as well as dollars, and potentially working with external partners. This is a complex situation. … We don’t have all of the answers for implementation, but our intent is to explore all avenues as well as potential partnerships, too.
It’s a matter of applying the sorts of systems engineering thinking and other strains of engineering to the problems at hand. NASA has shown time and again the ability to take those expertises and parlay them into a number of different applications in the world.Yes, reviewers are working remotely. … As far as implementation, we imagine that many of the ideas specific to sterilizing personal protective equipment for example … are things [where people] would quite likely need access to centers.
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