Event Logging, Analysis, and Reporting System (ELARS) as a Knowledge Management Technology

摘要

The Space-Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS) program represents a 'system of systems,' that is a critical part in the United States Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) capability. SBIRS is managed by a large multi-dimensional team. In addition to their other duties, the team is faced with a daunting logging challenge. The extensive required logging places significant demands on the SBIRS team and can at times siphon resources from the task at hand. Moreover, once logged, events are essentially 'locked' into the logbooks. Extracting data from the books is an arduous and seldom performed process. The result is that valuable knowledge remains inert. Here, we describe the Event Logging, Analysis, and Reporting System (ELARS) as an enabling technology for knowledge management. ELARS simplifies the process of entering log data and producing a range of associated knowledge products that support state and trend analysis across varied timescales to improve operational efficiency. In doing so, it activates the previously inert knowledge.