Behind the business of NASA’s digital transformation

The IT Modernization Mission Perhaps more than any other agency’s, NASA’s history is shaped by technological innovation. At a time when the federal government is pursuing new methods to modernize its digital infrastructure, it falls to Jill Marlowe to help align the space agency’s diverse mission sets toward a future that is data-fueled, interoperable and powered by emerging technology. As NASA’s digital transformation officer, Marlowe is tasked with overseeing its Enterprise Digital Transformation, a strategic initiative launched in December 2020 to help shape what the agency’s information technology environment will look like in the future and how it will best serve a wide-ranging portfolio of business outcomes. In an interview (edited here for length and clarity), Marlowe spoke about the initiative and where NASA is headed next. NASA’s approach to digital transformation evolved over a number of years, dating back to strategies and frameworks from 2018 and 2019 and the enterprise initiative that launched in late 2020. Can you talk about the plan itself and where things sit right now, nearly three years after that launch? In 2018, there was a study team — now I refer to that as the pre-formulation phase — where they were doing a […]

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