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Architecture Concept Review: NASA web page

Page: https://www.nasa.gov/moontomarsarchitecture-architectureconceptreview/. No date on the page. Fetched 2026-10-01T07:22:05Z. File: sources/text/pages/moontomarsarchitecture-architectureconceptreview.md.

Summary. The yearly review that updates the architecture: "NASA's annual Architecture Concept Review cycle allows the agency to evolve its Moon to Mars Architecture, our roadmap for crewed exploration of deep space." The text is the 2024 executive overview's (PDF p. 20) with small changes, and the cycle is already on Architecture definition process. The 2024 reference-frames paper cites this page (reference 15). Nothing here is missing from the wiki.

What the page says

  • "Introduction." ESDMD "leads crewed deep space exploration for the agency" with the Space Operations, Science, Space Technology and Aeronautics directorates and outside partners. "Within the directorate, NASA's Strategy and Architecture Office leads definition, documentation, and disposition of the architecture with buy-in from all stakeholders." "The annual ACR cycle comprises tasks and trade studies [that] help NASA to better understand architectural needs, capability gaps, and opportunities to enhance the architecture through the addition of new elements." Architects engage partners through the workshops, "study agreements and solicitations".
  • "Architecture Concept Review." "The ACR cycle culminates in the ACR meeting, which invites leaders from across NASA's mission directorates, centers, and technical authorities to consider updates to the architecture. The architecture team polls attendees, seeking concurrence on the architecture to ensure a united vision." Afterwards "the agency releases a new revision of the Architecture Definition Document, an executive summary of the architecture, and white papers".

The wiki's comparison with the 2024 overview (PDF p. 20): the overview speaks of the "strategic analysis cycle" whose tasks and trade studies feed the review, where this page folds them into "the annual ACR cycle"; and the overview lists the ADD and white papers as products, where this page adds "an executive summary of the architecture". For 2025 that product was the Architecture Update (Architecture Definition Documents page).

Architecture definition process · Workshops page · Architecture Definition Documents page