Lessons Learned and Technical Standards A Logical Marriage

Paul Gill, Manager, Technical Standards Program, National Aeronautics and Space Administration., William W. Vaughan, is associated with the NASA Technical Standards Program as a consultant and is a professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville., and Danny Garcia, lead systems engineer for the NASA Technical Standards Program Office.

2/15/2008
(Original Publish Date: 11/1/2001)

Using the time-honored tradition of passing on lessons learned while utilizing the newest in information technology, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has launched an intensive effort to link lessons learned with specific technical standards through various Internet databases. This article will discuss the importance of lessons learned to engineers, the difficulty in finding relevant lessons learned while engaged in an engineering project, and the new NASA project that can help alleviate this difficulty. The article will conclude with recommendations for more expanded cross-sectoral uses of lessons learned with reference to technical standards.