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PBMA SecureMeeting Transition PBMA SecureMeeting was implemented as a temporary solution until the Agency could provide a product capable of handling SBU information in a secure environment. The current PBMA SecureMeeting system has a limitation of 100 simultaneous meeting users (regardless of how many meetings occur, only 100 people can be logged on and attending meetings at any time). While the PBMA SecureMeeting product has been a success over the last three years, the sheer volume of meetings and attendees has recently begun to overwhelm the system. It is timely that the PBMA Team is pleased to announce the new Agency-approved Secure Virtual Team Meeting (SVTM) that will replace PBMA SecureMeeting. ODIN, in direct partnership with the NASA Agency CIO, has announced the upcoming availability of Secure Virtual Team Meeting (SVTM). SVTM will replace the existing Virtual Team Meeting (WebEx), and provide users the ability to host and participate in either secure or non-secure web presentations. In the past, only non-secure Web presentations were available via WebEx. SVTM, based on Cisco's Unified MeetingPlace and hosted in the NASA Data Center, will replace WebEx and allow for Web-based SBU presentations to occur in a secure environment. Beginning March 24, 2008, current Virtual Team Meeting customers will be able to start using the new SVTM for scheduling Web collaborations. SecureMeeting coordinators, please begin working with your local ODIN Points-of-Contact to obtain SVTM seat subscriptions to begin the transition from PBMA SecureMeeting. Once the new SVTM System has completed testing and is available for everyone to use, PBMA SecureMeeting will begin phasing out. Timelines for this phase-out activity are being developed and further updates will be posted here. The phase-out will not start until the new SVTM System is in production to service your meeting needs. Please note: The new SVTM will not affect the Enhanced Security Work Groups (ESWG). The current ESWG functionality and processes will remain the same. For more information, please visit the Secure Virtual Team Meeting (SVTM) Web site. Thank you, The PBMA Team Probabilistic Risk Assessment Methods Workshop Sign up now for NASA's Seventh Workshop for Probabilistic Risk Assessment Methods. The course will be offered June 10 - June 13. To register or for more information please visit the PRAM-7 Web site. User Feedback The PBMA-KMS Team values input from our user community. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions, please feel free to submit them via our User Experience Survey.

Announcements

PBMA SecureMeeting Transition

PBMA SecureMeeting was implemented as a temporary solution until the Agency could provide a product capable of handling SBU information in a secure environment. The current PBMA SecureMeeting system has a limitation of 100 simultaneous meeting users (regardless of how many meetings occur, only 100 people can be logged on and attending meetings at any time). While the PBMA SecureMeeting product has been a success over the last three years, the sheer volume of meetings and attendees has recently begun to overwhelm the system. It is timely that the PBMA Team is pleased to announce the new Agency-approved Secure Virtual Team Meeting (SVTM) that will replace PBMA SecureMeeting.

ODIN, in direct partnership with the NASA Agency CIO, has announced the upcoming availability of Secure Virtual Team Meeting (SVTM). SVTM will replace the existing Virtual Team Meeting (WebEx), and provide users the ability to host and participate in either secure or non-secure web presentations.

In the past, only non-secure Web presentations were available via WebEx. SVTM, based on Cisco's Unified MeetingPlace and hosted in the NASA Data Center, will replace WebEx and allow for Web-based SBU presentations to occur in a secure environment.

Beginning March 24, 2008, current Virtual Team Meeting customers will be able to start using the new SVTM for scheduling Web collaborations. SecureMeeting coordinators, please begin working with your local ODIN Points-of-Contact to obtain SVTM seat subscriptions to begin the transition from PBMA SecureMeeting.

Once the new SVTM System has completed testing and is available for everyone to use, PBMA SecureMeeting will begin phasing out. Timelines for this phase-out activity are being developed and further updates will be posted here. The phase-out will not start until the new SVTM System is in production to service your meeting needs.

Please note: The new SVTM will not affect the Enhanced Security Work Groups (ESWG). The current ESWG functionality and processes will remain the same.

For more information, please visit the Secure Virtual Team Meeting (SVTM)

Web site.

Thank you,

The PBMA Team

Probabilistic Risk Assessment Methods Workshop

Sign up now for NASA's Seventh Workshop for Probabilistic Risk Assessment Methods. The course will be offered June 10 - June 13. To register or for more information please visit the PRAM-7

Web site.

User Feedback

The PBMA-KMS Team values input from our user community. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions, please feel free to submit them via our User Experience Survey.

PBMA-KMS Mission Statement

Provide quick and easy access to critical Safety & Mission Data to support program managers and S&MA professionals across all NASA programs and projects. Enable mission success knowledge management through:
•	Key knowledge access (the right information, in the right place, at the right time)
•	Knowledge capture (both explicit (documented) and tacit (corporate/tribal))
•	Knowledge sharing & reuse
•	Work groups and collaboration

This Month's Safety Message

Responsibility Is Not Delegable

NASA projects customarily include contractors, subcontractors, third-party vendors, as well as international partners and other government agencies. Delegation of roles, tasks, and authorities among team members is common and desired in these teaming arrangements. However, clarity in these delegations, along with a universal understanding of their limits, is crucial in any complex undertaking. This case study addresses a number of key issues associated with managing an engineering project with a high degree of multi-organizational cooperation and dependency. Of the many things that are naturally delegated amongst the parties involved, overall responsibility for safety and performance cannot be one of them.

Bryan O'Connor

Chief, Safety and Mission Assurance

SFCS - Two Rods Don’t Make It Right

ViTS - Two Rods Don’t Make It Right

Coming Attractions: Tunnel of Terror - "The Big Dig" Ceiling Tile Collapse.

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