NASA · NASA-535 · record R0275

ATLAS

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · GISS: Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Overview

Development stage: In development or acquisitionSource: a) Pre-deployment – The use case is in a development or acquisition status.
High-impact designation: Not high-impactSource: c) Not high-impact
Impact justification: Not reported
Start date: Not reported
Withheld from public reporting: NoSource: a) No

Mission

Topic area: Science
Operational functions: Search and knowledge retrieval Derived by keyword rules; see methodology

Problem the AI is intended to solve

Atlas is a RAG-based solution for answering questions about NASA standards, directives, and Space Act Agreements. It uses publicly available NASA standards, directives and Space Ac Agreements. Users ask questions to Atlas which then fines relevant excerpts from the corpus of NASA public data in order to provide answers.

Expected benefits

The framework developed for this may be applied to other high interest data sets.

System outputs

answering questions about NASA standards, directives, and Space Act Agreements

Technology

AI classification: Generative AISource: Generative AI: AI that generates new or synthetic content (e.g., images, videos, audio, text, code).
System name(s): Not reported
Custom-developed code: Not reported
Public source code: Not reported

Sourcing

How it was built: Not reported
Vendor (as reported): Not reported
Vendors (standardized): None on the standard list

A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.

Data and privacy

Involves PII: Not reported
Privacy Impact Assessment: Not reported
Authorization to Operate: Not reported
Demographic features: Not reported
Training and evaluation data: Not reported
Federal Data Catalog: Not reported

Governance

0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.

Pre-deployment testingNo answer reported

AI impact assessmentNo answer reported

Independent reviewNo answer reported

Ongoing monitoringNo answer reported

Operator trainingNo answer reported

Fail-safeNo answer reported

Appeal processNo answer reported

User and public consultationNo answer reported

Potential impacts and how they were identified

Not reported