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Greetings from Washington, DC.
I'm Dr. Marshall Porterfield, Division Director for NASA Life
and Physical Sciences.
I think that we are now entering an exciting new era
for the scientific research community.
Here at NASA Headquarters and at the various centers,
we are working to ensure that we can capitalize
on the new research opportunities that come
with the completion of the ISS
and also the new commercial cargo capabilities.
Of course there are still challenges in terms
of throughput that significantly limit our research capabilities
and our ability to create more opportunities
for more science output.
That is why we are adopting a new model called
"Open Source Science" to manage
and energize broader participation
by the nation's talented pool of research minds.
Open Source Science brings together the community
of researchers to define an envelope of experiments
that will be conducted
and analyzed leveraging modern high-content analytics
in the Life and Physical Sciences.
The resulting data from that envelope
of experiments will then be used
to create experimental informatics libraries
that will support many more investigators
and funded ISS derived research.
What that does is it converts what would be normally a single
PI research opportunity
into multiple PI research opportunities now
and into the future.
Much in the way that Google has adopted an open source approach
for their Android operating system,
we're going to enable open source innovation
to stimulate our research community
and create many more new opportunities for scientists
and graduate students.
As we develop the approach
and create these informatics databases,
we're essentially stockpiling future research opportunities.
That ensures that we can continue
to support the community and make scientific progress,
even if there were to be any unforeseen problem with access
to spaceflight in the future.
Our informatics data will still be there enabling continuation
of the important work required to advance human exploration
out into the solar system.