David R. Gillikin, PE, CEM, NASA

NASA faces a maintenance budget shortfall of approximately $259M in maintaining its critical facilities, with a total estimated requirement of $650M in 2024. To address this, NASA OSI FRED is implementing a tiered maintenance strategy, focusing resources on the most mission-critical facilities and equipment. Simultaneously, NASA aims to enhance facilities asset management by leveraging existing data. As this strategy is implemented it is important for decision makers to understand how different funding scenarios can be applied across the portfolio and be able to predict the future facility condition impacts.
NASA is exploring ways to better leverage existing data to support facilities asset management and to improve understanding of what data is necessary to strengthen current asset management policy and procedures. NASA has undertaken the development of a Facility Degradation and Investment Modeling Tool to predict facility condition changes based on funding scenarios. This model will enable NASA to achieve key capabilities in data science that enable data-driven decision making as it relates to future condition of assets within a constrained budget.
Additionally, NASA is transforming agency maintenance measures to reflect an enterprise tiered maintenance strategy and reinvigoration of Reliability Centered Maintenance as implemented and executed throughout the agency Centers’ maintenance programs. NASA is working to establish performance indicators for their diverse facility and infrastructure portfolio that is integrated to reflect maintenance program efficacy to optimize facility health and performance with available resources.