Agency Master Planning50th R. H. Goddard Memorial Symposium

Dreams and Possibilities: Planning for the AchievableCalvin WilliamsActing Director,

Technical Capabilities and Real PropertyMarch 2012

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MASTER PLANNING

What is it?•Roadmap•Iterative•A baseline•Internal framework•Help to adapt assets

Analogous to Cruise Ship•Change takes time•Requires planning•Takes a steady hand•Comes with risk and costs

NASA Centers and InstallationsNASA Centers and Installations

Johnson Space CenterHouston, Texas

Michoud Assembly FacilityNew Orleans, LA

Stennis Space CenterStennis Space Center, MS

Langley Research CenterHampton, VA

Kennedy Space CenterCape Canaveral, FL

NASA HeadquartersWashington, D.C.

Marshall Space Flight CenterHuntsville, AL

Glenn Research CenterCleveland, OH

Ames Research CenterMountain View, CA

Dryden Flight Research CenterEdwards, CA

Jet Propulsion LaboratoryPasadena, CA

Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbelt, MD

White Sands Test FacilityWhite Sands, NM

Wallops Flight FacilityWallops Island, VA

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Integrating Facilities with Mission

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Strategic TacticalUS Space Policy

Strategic Planning

Program Strategies

Mission Support

Strategies

Budgeting

Program Execution

“Traditional”Master Plans

Capital Investment

Program Plan

Program Alignment

NASA Center Master Plans.

Facilities Strategy

Agency Master Planning

Agency Master Planning Products

Center Master Plans identify:

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At Centers Level At Agency LevelAgency Master Plan identifies:

Integration

Collective summary of processes, proposals, and outcomes with an Agency strategic assessment

5 and 20 year Agency Capital Investment Program Plan (CIPP)

Benchmarks and progress vs. goals (readiness, size, stewardship)

Benchmarks and progress vs. goals (readiness, size, stewardship)

5 and 20 year Center capital investment project proposals

Requirements and proposals for future Center operations concepts

Managing our Master Planning

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NASA Headquarters

&NASA

Centers

Headquarters and Centers each lead process segments

Strategy and Goals

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“NASA will renew and modernize its facilities to sustain its capabilities, and accommodate those capabilities in the most efficient facilities set practical.”

“To achieve similar capabilities, but with a moresustainable footprint.”

• Readier: • Raise share of portfolio within

design lifespan (from ~18% to 62% by 2055)

• Right-size: • Reduce holdings

• 10% by 2020• 15% by 2050

• Efficient: • Renew with sustainable,

resource-efficient assets to lower total cost of ownership

Strategy Goals

Benefits and Next Steps

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• Links projected funding to strategic objectives

• Develops strategies to consolidate and renew needed capabilities

• Guide recapitalization and repair budget planning

• Allows trending of NASA-wide implementation progress• Comprehensive energy and

water conservation planning

• Introduces climate change across NASA as a master planning consideration

• Translate funding realities into more specific facilities plans

• Seek and assess consolidation opportunities of key asset sets across Centers

• Explore new ways of doing business across NASA Centers• Consolidation• Leaner and Greener• Divesting without

Diminishing• Update guidance for future

planning process, products, and metrics

Current benefits Next Steps

Master Planning

It’s all about sustainability…

…Serving our mission effectively(Master plans guide our Agency to be readier for the mission)

Delivering products and services affordably(Master plans focus on right-sizing the portfolio of facilities needed in the future across the Agency)

Stewarding assets and resources wisely(Master plans identify both natural and constructed assets in “greening” the Agency)

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