RMC V
Tuesday, October 26 (Day 1)

Registration & Exhibits-Lobby	7:00-8:00
Welcome & Announcements   John E. Tinsley, HQ   Director, Mission Support Division   Office of Safety and Mission Assurance   Frank Robinson, Jr.   Director, Assurance Technology Center   OAI Facility Orientation & Introduction of GRC Center Director   Julian M. Earls, PhD   Director, Glenn Research Center	8:00-8:15
Keynote and Special Topic   Update of Safety and Mission Assurance in the Agency   Bryan O’Connor   Chief Safety & Mission Assurance Officer, OSMA, HQ   Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea, and the Stars   Robert Jacobs, Director, News & Multimedia Division   Office of Public Affairs, HQ	8:15-9:15 9:15-10:15
BREAK & View Exhibits	10:15-10:45
Topic Area 1: Shuttle RTF and Completing the ISS Moderator: Robert Navarro, Office of the Chief Engineer, ARC The Challenges of Return to Flight for the Space Shuttle Program Wayne Hale, Space Shuttle Deputy Program Manager, JSC John V. Turner, PhD Space Shuttle Program Risk Manager, JSC International Space Station: Risks, Trades and Impacts from the Columbia Tragedy & Challenges for Completing the Station Warren "Buddy" Pattison, Deputy SMA Manager for ISS	10:45-11:45 11:45-12:30
LUNCH & View Exhibits	12:30-1:15
Topic Area 2: Moon, Mars, and Beyond Moderator: Frank Culbertson Jr., Astronaut (Retired) Perspectives for Future Lunar-Mars Missions Risk Management for Future Exploration Systems Vicky Hwa, Risk Manager Exploration Systems Mission Directorate	1:15-2:00 2:00-2:45
BREAK & View Exhibits	2:45-3:15
Moon, Mars, and Beyond, cont’d Considerations of Risk in Managing Saturn Orbital Insertion (SOI) and Huygens Probe Critical Events Robert Mitchell, Cassini Project Manager, JPL Risk Management in a Technology Driven Environment Sammy Kayali, JIMO Mission Assurance Manager, JPL	3:15-4:00 4:00-4:45
Special Topic Integrating Quantitative Risk Assessment into System Safety Bill Vesely, PhD Safety & Assurance Requirements Division, HQ	4:45-5:30
Daily Wrap-Up John Tinsley
Conference Dinner Managing Risks in Turbulent Times Capt. Larry Brudnicki, USCG (Ret.) Captain of the Tamaroa from "The Perfect Storm" Introduction by Robert Navarro, Office of the Chief Engineer, ARC	7:00 (Offsite)

Wednesday, October 27 (Day 2)

Registration & Exhibits-Lobby	7:00-8:00
Welcome & Highlights John Tinsley	8:00-8:15
Keynote An Astronaut's Perspective: Risks and Risk Management James D. Wetherbee, Astronaut	8:15-9:00
Topic Area 2: Moon, Mars, and Beyond, cont’d. Moderator: Frank Culbertson Jr., Astronaut (Retired) The Health Risks of Space Exploration Richard Williams, MD/MPH, Chief Health & Medical Officer, HQ	9:00-9:45
BREAK & View Exhibits	9:45-10:15
Topic Area 3: Cultural and Organizational Risk Moderator: Anngienetta R. Johnson Assistant Chief Engineer, Office of the Chief Engineer, HQ Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents Professor James Reason, PhD Author & Professor Emeritus, University of Manchester, UK NASA Culture: High Reliability Organizations James D. Wetherbee Office of the Chief Engineer, JSC The Naval Aviation Approach to Error Management Capt. John Schmidt, US Navy, Naval Aeromedical Institute	10:15-11:00 11:00-11:45 11:45-12:30
LUNCH & View Exhibits	12:30-1:30
NASA Risk Management for Information Technology (IT) Security Tom Siu, RS Information Systems, GRC	1:30-2:15
Expert Panel "Challenges to Managing Risk for Successful RTF, Completing the ISS, and for Exploring the Moon, Mars and Beyond" Chair: Jeevan Perera Risk Manager, JSC Panel Members: Wayne Hale, Space Shuttle Deputy Program Manager, JSC Michael Lutomski, ISS Risk Manager, JSC Richard Brace, Manager, Mission Assurance Office, JPL James Wetherbee, Astronaut, JSC James Reason, Professor Emeritus, Univ. of Manchester UK Bill Vesely, Safety & Assurance Requirements Division, HQ	2:15-3:45
Guest Appearence: Administrator Sean O’Keefe
Town Hall Meeting with Professor James Reason Open discussion & light hors d'oeuvres
Concluding Remarks and Wrap-Up John Tinsley
BREAK & View Exhibits
Concurrent Tutorials & Breakout Session Tutorial: Executive Overview: Next Generation Continuous Risk Management Charlie Cockrell, Risk Management Corporation Ray Williams, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
The Powers of Fault Tree Analysis (not presented) Bill Vesely, PhD Safety & Assurance Requirements, HQ
Breakout Session: Special Topics Moderator: Lawrence Davis, DFRC NESC/NDE Efforts in RTF (not presented) Ed Generazio Chief Discipline Engineer/NESC
Risk Management from an IA Perspective Michael Canga Independent Program Assessment Office (IPAO)
X43-A: Risk Management at Mach 7 Lawrence Davis SMA Director, DFRC

Thursday, October 28 (Day 3)

Welcome & Highlights John Tinsley	8:00-8:15
Special Topic What Does It Mean to Effectively Communicate Risk? -- How to Measure and Improve Ray Williams, Carnegie Mellon University Jeevan Perera, PhD/JD, JSC	8:15-8:55
Concurrent Breakout Sessions	9:00-10:15
Session A: Risk Management Methods Tools & Techniques - I Lead: Freddie Douglas	9:00-10:15
Integrated Risk Management Application (IRMA) Jeevan Perera, PhD/JD, JSC	9:00-9:30
Active Risk Manager: User Report Freddie Douglas, Pedro Curiel, SMO SSC	9:30-10:15
Session B: Risk Management Methods Tools & Techniques - II Lead: Cynthia Calhoun	9:00-10:15
Active Risk Manager (ARM): NASA Applications Peter Van Dal, Strategic Thought LLP	9:00-9:30
Risk Management Implementation Tool (RMIT) Cynthia Calhoun, GRC	9:30-10:15
Session C: Innovations in Risk Management Lead: Francesca Barrientos	9:00-10:15
New Frontiers in Risk-Based Design for Exploration Francesca Barrientos, PhD, ARC	9:00-9:30
Cost Continuous Risk Management (C-CRM) & Earned Value Management Links to Risk Management for NASA Projects David R. Graham Cost Analysis Division (CAD), HQ Tracy K. Wrigley Safety & Mission Assurance, MSFC	9:30-10:15
BREAK	10:15-10:30

Probabilistic Risk Assessment Exchange of Information (PRAXI-5)

Welcome & Announcements Peter Prassinos (for Michael Stamatelatos, PhD Director, Safety & Assurance Requirements, HQ))	10:30-10:45
PRAXI Presentations (Auditorium) Myths & Truths in PRA (cancelled, not posted) Michael Stamatelatos, PhD Discussion of New NPR 8705.5, Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) Procedures for NASA Programs and Projects Peter Prassinos	10:45-12:15 10:45-11:30 11:30-12:15
LUNCH	12:15-1:00
PRAXI Breakout Sessions Session A PRA Role in System Safety and Continuous Risk Management Lead: H. Dezfuli, PhD Session B PRA Use in Design and Life Cycle Lead: T. Hartline Session C PRA Use in Decision Making Lead: W. Vesely, PhD Session D Special Considerations in Nuclear Space Mission PRA Lead: J. Lyver	1:00-4:00

Friday, October 29 (Day 4)

Welcome & Highlights Peter Prassinos	8:00-8:10
NRC Presentation on Risk-Informed Regulation Gareth Parry, PhD Senior Advisor for System Safety and Analysis Nuclear Regulatory Commission	8:10-8:55
PRAXI Breakout Sessions, cont'd (Separate breakout rooms)	8:55-10:25
BREAK	10:25-10:45
PRAXI Breakout Session Presentations and Closeout (Auditorium)	10:45-12:30
Concluding Remarks & Wrap-up An Integrated Total S&MA Management Framework - Introducing the Double-T Concept for Risk-informed   Comprehensive Safety Risk Management Feng Hsu, PhD SAIC, JSC Wrap-up Peter Prassinos	12:30-1:00
Adjourn	1:00
Risk Management Exhibits - Continually During Oct 26-28 Active Risk Manager (ARM) Karl Pringle, Strategic Thought LLP Continuous Risk Management (CRM) Steve Botzum, Risk Management Corporation Process Based Mission Assurance (PBMA) Jennifer Jones, Alphaport, CRC Investigation Organizer (IO) James Williams, ARC Randy Nickel, Xerox Corporation Risk Management Implementation Tool (RMIT) Cynthia Calhoun, GRC Integrated Risk Management Application (IRMA) - Update Jeevan Perera, PhD/JD, JSC Space Flight Awareness (SFA) Alotta Taylor, SFA HQ; Elizabeth Torres, SFA JSC; Agnes Vargas, Boeing, KSC; Elise Checketts, ATK Thiokol Return to Flight (RTF) Exhibit GRC Public Affairs Office Quantitative Risk Assessment System (QRAS) Kamran Nouri, President, Item Software Systems Analysis Programs for Hands-on Integrated Reliabiliy Evaluations (Saphire) Ted Wood, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Galileo: Software Tool for Dynamic Fault Tree Analysis (Univ. of VA) Leila Meshkat, PhD, JPL