The NASA Aircraft Management Information System (NAMIS) is an Enterprise Resource Planning/Mission Support software suite designed to meet both the mission support requirements and the business management requirements of NASA Johnson Space Center’s (JSC) Aircraft Operations Division (AOD). The concept and 11 high-level requirements were conceived in 1996. NAMIS was then developed over a period of 12 years in a series of modular, integrated components designed to meet those 11 requirements. The requirements were adopted by NASA’s Intercenter Aircraft Operations Panel (IAOP) in March 2003 as the basis for defining a common aircraft management solution for use at all NASA centers to replace both legacy systems and paper-based systems with one integrated software solution to track aircraft-related activities for NASA.
In August 2005, the Aircraft Management Division (AMD) at NASA Headquarters, working through the Integrated Enterprise Management Program (IEMP), chose NAMIS as the solution for all NASA centers with aircraft in order to provide:
- Tools and processes that will eliminate the risk of conducting flight operations:
- In aircraft with overdue inspections,
- In aircraft with grounding discrepancies,
- In aircraft not properly configured for the mission, and
- By any aircrew not current and qualified for the mission.
- Tools and processes that will provide continuous and positive control of all assets including materials, parts, and equipment that exceed a customer-defined value.
- Tools and processes that will reduce the material costs and labor hours to perform the objectives stated in the above items.
- The data, information, and metrics required to support flight operations management and business decisions.
- The data required by other systems and external components to support consistent and accurate financial reporting and asset accounting by the Centers and the Agency as set forth in the NASA property and financial management regulations and in the Federal Aviation Interactive Reporting System (FAIRS) report requirements.
NAMIS consists of eight separate but integrated modules. The tool at the time of this reporting has been supporting the needs of over 900 users.
This work was done by Dan Swint and Noreen McLeroy of Johnson Space Center; Matthias Borck, Aaron Benzel, Andrea Chalk, Lynn Chang, Mona Lam, Jeanne Mehsling, Robert Penry, Aurin Tesoro, Charles Wheeler, and Richard Herder of SAIC; Lokson Woo and Jason Milam of REDE, Inc.; and Yagnesh Patel of QTS Inc. MSC-24723-1
