00:02While I'm, while we're getting started on there...

00:04...I'm going to talk to you a little bit about what we're doing with building interior space NASA Langley.

00:09I'm the GIS team lead there, since my information didn't make it into the sessions...

00:15...and that's probably my fault for not submitting it properly.

00:18But one of the things that we've been doing is, I'm sort of long in the tooth on my career...

00:23...and I've decided to only commit myself and my team to projects that can be addressed fairly fairly efficiently...

00:29...so that way I can see these things happen before I leave.

00:33So I've decided to commit our team to making the government more efficient.

00:37And with that...

00:44So with that, I'm going to show you in the interest of efficiency a video...

00:49...that will compress about a couple years of work into a few minutes.

00:57NASA Langley Space Allocation Planning Tools are designed to address the complex problem of allocating limited resources...

01:03...associated with physical spaces to meet organizational goals...

01:07...minimize operating costs, and promote an effective workplace.

01:12The first issue we address in dealing with space allocation planning is the difficulty in visualizing the geographically sparse data.

01:23We developed a spatial diagram technique that allows us to eliminate the uninteresting areas of the map...

01:27...and discover inefficiencies from organizational fragmentation.

01:28...while retaining the essential neighborhoods of the features.

01:31This allows us to see all 4,000-plus rooms and the associated personnel in a single view.

01:36The technical rooms and personnel point features are assigned colors indicative of their organizations.

01:42Space planners can use this diagram to locate available space, find opportunities for compression...

01:51To evaluate plans and guide decision making, developing a model is essential.

01:55Our model language expressed using an XML schema is very general in nature and suited to a variety of situations.

02:01The model captures the specific requirements or constraints and can estimate the monetary impact of changes...

02:06...in terms of implementation costs, infrastructure costs, and the effect on organizational synergy.

02:11While the model can take advantage of the fine-grained, spatially rich datasets developed at NASA Langley...

02:16...it can also be used successfully with very simple tabular data sources.

02:22While the model itself is useful in providing feedback for a manual effort...

02:25...the real benefit is in allowing the computer to automatically find solutions which are in some sense optimal.

02:30Optimization algorithms were developed that can generate solutions to small-scale near-term problems in minutes...

02:35...and large-scale long-term solutions in 24 hours.

02:38The algorithm is able to reduce the estimated annual efficiency losses in half...

02:42...primarily as a result of better co-location within organizations.

02:47A collection of ArcGIS geoprocessing tools and scripts were developed to provide an easy-to-use but flexible environment...

02:53...in which the space planner working with GIS analysts can develop solutions to problems.

02:57These tools automate much of the work of data extraction, model generation, analysis, and visualization.

03:07As indicated by our development roadmap, the long-term goal is to achieve a completely Web-based solution...

03:12...allowing everything from data collection to optimization to manual refinement to be performed by non-GIS experts.

03:19The first Web component developed is an interface for planners to manually fine-tune optimization solutions...

03:25...while maintaining awareness of the impact of their changes to the constraints and cost metrics defined in the model.

03:31This component allows planners to modify solutions through a simple drag-and-drop interface...

03:37...with visual feedback of constraint violations and the effects on cost metrics.

03:41Search tools provide an intuitive way to locate specific people or groups.

03:47Float-over-style feedback permeates the interface minimizing the need for clicking and allowing the user to focus on the planning task.

03:54The optimization service also provides real-time suggestions.

03:58Users can interact with both the spatial diagram and more traditional floor plan views...

04:02...and an overview center level map provides the context.

04:04...and then proposing solutions to the like spatial utilization officer, the manager of facilities...

04:06An extensible tabbed interface provides details about the current constraint violations and cost metrics decomposed for each individual.

04:13This has been a very brief overview of the space allocation planning tools being developed at NASA Langley Research Center's GIS team.

04:20More information is available at our Web site.

04:34Next thing I want to quickly go through, a couple of, where we're at right now, the, you saw this diagram briefly in there but we are fairly far along on a roadmap...

04:45...a lot farther than we had imagined in our original development plan.

04:49But what we're going to really see that this conference can benefit from is occurring up here.

04:54Building construction, demolition, goal-driven planning, and comprehensive technical thing...

04:59...but we're actually taking various categories of facilities, developing unique features...

05:10...that will allow them to concentrate on better solutions and more efficient solutions.

05:16We'd like this to be based on project requirements, not necessarily that a certain area or a certain building is owned by atmospheric science...

05:23...is owned by structures and materials, where you take a look at what projects have to come into a NASA facility...

05:31...and then make the best solution of what facilities that house them in the future.

05:34Sort of a novel concept.

05:36What we'd like to do is, and we talked about the visualization, the spatial subdivision diagram was a key part of that.

05:42We needed something on the dashboard that could give you the fine-grain picture and the larger view as well.

05:49So what we're doing is, this is work that Robert has done recently on the new visualization techniques...

05:55...and we're able to very, very quickly, probably real time, display the information out of this diagram...

06:01...so that way you can see mapping purposes.

06:02We can see a lot more uses for this.

06:05Right now we're using the focus on compressing people and buildings to pay the bills to fund this development effort.

06:12So, but there's a lot of other potential that can occur with this we feel.

06:16Right now what I'm going to do is I'm going to show some examples.

06:19Some people have commented, well this can only work at Langley...

06:22...because of the work that we've been doing over the years to capture the information.

06:26But I want to show you an example.

06:28This is Johnson Space Center that we've actually ingested the data, run the application...

06:33...and this is all buildings, all personnel, and all rooms at Johnson Space Center.

06:38And you can see right now that we had out of the 3,844 offices, we've got 625 empty.

06:44After about a 60-hour run on this, we did an optimization solution and let me go back.

06:50You can see all the little red dots on here.

06:52These are constraint violations all over the map.

06:56And these are things where we've got people in the wrong type of office, wrong size of office.

07:00We've got worker bees in there with managers so they can't effectively conduct performance evaluations.

07:05But then when we go to the solution...

07:08...we now have double the number of offices and where no constraints that are showing based on the rules that we've been given.

07:16Now we were sort of running this in the blind.

07:17We were asked to run this.

07:18We didn't really know what the overall goal was.

07:21So now what we've done is we've produced solutions that cut again.

07:26Typically, we're able to reduce the cost by about half of what the, based on the metrics that we've established...

07:33...of what the previous initial situation was.

07:37And then after we've delivered this, a couple of weeks after that, I received this information.

07:42And the management at Johnson had indicated with the change in the space program...

07:47...that they have all of these contractors outside and they have a tremendous exposure based on the leases of these facilities.

07:55So what we've done is, and then we heard about that, and now this is the potential...

08:01...to actually compress those contractors within the space that is available.