NASA · NASA-743 · record R0410

Ask Tech Port

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · HQ: Headquarters

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: Service Delivery
Operational functions: Chatbot or virtual assistant Derived by keyword rules; see methodology

Problem the AI is intended to solve

Ongoing development and enhancement of the NASA Technology Portfolio Management System (TechPort) "AskTechPort" generative AI tool. AskTechPort leverages the TechPort data set of over 18,000 current and historical NASA applied research and experimental development investments to answer questions about NASA's technology portfolio and capabilities. AskTechPort provides an interactive feature enabling users to inquire about NASA technology investment areas, maturity of those technologies, organizations developing those technologies, and where work is being performed.

Expected benefits

TechPort sees an average of over 12,000 unique users each month. These users conduct over 250,000 searches each year of the NASA technology portfolio. The benefit of "Ask Tech Port" is a component that reduces the total time to search or retrieve the results of a data inquiry by 50%, providing interactive features that use natural language processing to provide a faster inquiry mechanism than historical faceted search techniques.

System outputs

Interactive responses

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