NASA has a new innovation tool

NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) and its NASA@WORK team are excited to announce the launch of the new NASA@WORK platform. Unlike the NASA@WORK of yore, this one will put more than a name to the ingenious ideas sprouted by the agency’s own innovators.

While NASA@WORK is already known for being a superior knowledge-sharing platform where employees can share data, collaborate and advance projects in their own unconventional and inventive style, the new iteration makes it a more personal and fun endeavor. Hosted on IdeaScale, users will be able to enhance their profiles with pictures, engage in community activity and supercharge their concepts by earning points and badges. Daily activity prompts and enhanced challenge displays encourage participants to nurture their creativity further.

Got problems? NASA@WORK is ideal for employees looking to garner a broader pool of input for a specific work-related activity. By posting a challenge for the community to respond to, the challenge owner is able to get inputs from experts across the agency and is no longer limited by their own imagination.

Lynn Buquo, CoECI manager, states that the program is the best tool available to NASA employees to tap into the scientific/engineering/creative power that happens when team members from across the agency collaborate and solve challenges on the platform. All NASA employees, from interns to astronauts, can submit their ideas as possible solutions—and even come away with prizes.

Anyone can influence the biggest developments happening across all areas of NASA’s mission. NASA@WORK, now enhanced and better than before, can accelerate the development of innovative ideas and creative solutions that the future of NASA’s Johnson Space Center and the agency as a whole demands.


Shaneequa Vereen
NASA Johnson Space Center