Data Systems and Management (D)

Summary. The capabilities that "manage, compute, store, secure, and protect data" across the architecture, including avionics, software, data models and environment-tolerant hardware (ADD Rev C, p. 41). It is "tightly coupled" with C&PNT, Human Systems, and Autonomous Systems and Robotics. It has no element in Rev C; five technology gaps list it, one named in the Moon Base Users Guide (near-term). Decomposition letter: D.

NASA's description

"This sub-architecture includes capabilities that work together to manage, compute, store, secure, and protect data within acceptable latency constraints for use throughout the architecture. This sub-architecture is tightly coupled with the C&PNT, Human Systems, and Autonomous Systems and Robotics sub-architectures and considers data interoperability and availability across the architecture.

This sub-architecture encompasses the comprehensive framework that governs how the architecture manages, uses, and stores data as well as the subset of tools, models, processes, representations, and technologies designed to capture, store, process, and retrieve data efficiently and securely. …

The sub-architecture defines avionics and software systems; logical and conceptual data models using element-level data specifications; and relationships between elements. It addresses environment-tolerant avionics hardware; related software and databases; and systems that organize and maintain data. Sub-architecture responsibilities include analyzing data handling across communications and computational systems to ensure effective use of bandwidth and interoperability between current and future technologies." (ADD Rev C, p. 41)

The omitted sentence reads, as printed: "From small-scale payloads to large, complex mission sequences, effective data management across the architecture ensures that NASA can derive valuable insights can be derived from raw data."

In the segments

• Foundational Exploration. Infrastructure objectives LI-2 and LI-3 drive expansion of the "C&PNT and data systems and management" sub-architectures (ADD Rev C, p. 28).
• Sustained Lunar Evolution. "communications, data, and navigation" are among the areas for expanded demand signals (p. 36).

Elements

None in Rev C (segment tables, pp. 26, 31–32; see the elements index).

Technology gaps

Five gaps list this sub-architecture (derived from the tech gaps spreadsheet, Sub-Architectures column). MB = named in the Moon Base Users Guide (near-term).

Gap	Rating	MB
#0201 Extreme Environment Avionics	2	MB
#1003 Fault/Anomaly Diagnosis, Decision Support, and Response	18
#0202 High-Performance Onboard Computing	26
#1004 Trustworthy Autonomy for Planning and Decision-making	33
#1002 Autonomous Monitoring	34

The three #10xx gaps also list Autonomous Systems and Robotics.

Moon Base Phase 1

The Users Guide has no Data Systems group among its Phase 1 functional gaps (Users Guide, pp. 8–10). One gap of this sub-architecture is named in the Moon Base Users Guide (near-term): #0201, under "Operating on the Lunar Surface for Long Durations" (Technology and knowledge challenges).

Related pages

Sub-architectures · C&PNT Systems · Autonomous Systems and Robotics · Human Systems · Gaps index

Sources

ADD Rev C, pp. 26, 28, 31–32, 36, 40–41 · Tech gaps spreadsheet · Users Guide, pp. 8–13