In "The Knowledge Path to Mission Success: Overview of the NASA PBMA-KMS", J. Steven Newman & Stephen M. Wander provide the following description:

 

"The PBMA-KMS supports mission safety and success by enabling people to more easily and effectively share critical knowledge across space and time. The PBMA-KMS provides quick access to sample assurance planning documents, process ideas, best practices, and lessons learned, along with assurance profiles of recent and ongoing NASA programs. It is designed for those individuals across the NASA community involved in program/project planning, execution, and review and thus, principle users would include program executives, program managers, project managers, and members of the SMA community. Other users will include independent assessment teams, NASA systems management offices, NASA domestic and international partners, and the NASA contractor community at large. The PBMA-KMS also incorporates advanced knowledge management functionality providing the capability to support multiple work groups or "communities of practice." The PBMA-KMS is designed to facilitate knowledge sharing, enabling personal knowledge to become organizational knowledge and organizational knowledge to become personal knowledge."

 

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