PASADENA, CA, April 23, 2003 /PRNewswire/ --

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (www.nasa.gov) has selected Chase Computing International (Chase) as the recipient of its prestigious Space Act Award. NASA’s Space Act Award is intended to honor outstanding scientific or technical contributions sponsored, adopted, supported, or used by NASA which are significant to aeronautics and space activities. Chase, a leading-edge technology consulting and services firm, was recognized for its Automated Anomaly Management System (AAMS). Chase architected and built AAMS for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL) (www.jpl.nasa.gov) Deep Space Mission System (DSMS), which maintains responsibility for processing, managing, distributing, and archiving data from JPL-led Earth and Space Science Missions.

Tonja Cooper, Configuration Management Services Manager of DSMS at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, noted that AAMS marks another strong example of Chase’s innovative work for JPL. Cooper remarked, “Often at JPL, we need to take an existing, manual system and make it web-based and accessible on-line. James [Lin] and his team put forth the extra effort to understand AAMS and its real requirements before they begin designing it. This allowed them to eliminate redundancy and ambiguity in the process, resulting in a system that represents true process improvement.”

AAMS represents only one of many process-driven automated workflow systems in the area of Configuration Management designed and built by Chase. AAMS is specifically designed as a web-based consolidated anomaly management system. AAMS Users can originate, update, track, and query anomalies arising from JPL operations software systems through various phases and lifecycles. AAMS users possess varying roles with configurable privilege levels that restrict and control permissible user actions.

Other workflow systems and tools designed by Chase include Change Request, Discrepancy Reporting, and Waiver Request tracking and integration. These web based work flow solutions provide greatly enhanced productivity and performance for JPL’s DSMS. Chase designed these systems for DSMS’s Configuration Management group under the Science Data and System Implementation and Operations (SDSIO) contract between JPL and Raytheon.

For More Information Contact:
James Lin
Chase Computing
626.308.5888
james@chasecom.com