Series Description

Physical Description: 42 digital items.

Subseries 1. Center Communications, January 29, 2020 - December 14, 2020. Center communications, issued in circulars and postings on the Inside Ames internal website "COVID-19 Information and Updates" page, comprise a sampling of announcements, guidelines, facility and services status updates, face mask requirements, cases and contact tracing (anonymized), wellness campaign efforts, transcripts of "Ask the Center Director" virtual town hall meetings with staff; and return to onsite work (RTOW) framework and guidance documents. Also included is a timeline and index of Ames Centerwide announcements and Astrogram newsletter articles organized by date of issue.

Subseries 2: Contractor Staff Communications, March 9, 2020 - December 18, 2020. Center contractor communications mainly comprise regular email messages and informational attachments from KBR FILMSS Contract Program Manager Richard S. Thompson to his staff. In addition to containing critical information, policy guidance, and status updates, Thompson's messages provide personal insights and moral support, and were used to disseminate information and photographs from group activities, such as "FILMSS Foodie Friday" photograph collages of various dishes team members cooked at home each week. The individual messages with attachments are compiled into ten files, one per month from March to December. Also included are staff photographs of inspiring outdoor scenes; a digital card (sent to Thompson on July 1) signed by individual FILMSS employees thanking him for his regular messages and leadership during the mandatory telework period; and a FILMSS RTOW staff survey, survey responses, and summary presentation delivered to staff in a company town hall on May 11.

Physical Description: 109 digital items.

This series contains summary information about the center's response to the pandemic, including the use of high-performance computing resources in NASA's Advanced Supercomputing Division at Ames to support efforts to work toward finding solutions for the pandemic and the COV-IRT effort (a page from the agency website), as well as COV-IRT documentation, including: charter; logo; member list with photographs; brief background information provided by Beheshti; weekly meeting reminders, agendas, and summaries; copies of Beheshti's weekly activity reports summarizing his COVID-19 work and all activity with the COV-IRT team; flyers, agendas, and copies of Beheshti's presentations for the first two COV-IRT symposiums; information from the COV-IRT website about the MaskCheck application developed by the team to help ensure compliance; and website descriptions and copies of versions of the Exposure Assessment Tool developed by the team.