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As ALS goals branch out to extended missions to the moon and Mars, concurrent science and engineering projects take center stage in the development of new ALS technology. It is necessary to optimize the interdisciplinary research activities in order to ensure ALS research goals are met in a timely manner, and to guarantee the reliability of future long term missions. The SSM team of the NJ-NSCORT has developed an internet software platform capable of performing a systems level analysis of the ALS research activity. The information produced by the analysis can assist ALS researchers in the streamlining of research activity.

In order to improve the efficiency of concurrent science and engineering projects, efforts are being made on the object oriented analysis (OOA) of the NJ-NSCORT projects. With the use of information flow models a compatibility/completeness analysis, defined herein, can be performed in order to answer systems level project interaction questions. One obsticle has been the collection and subsequent processing of pertinent project information. Currently a software package is under development which will automate the analysis of the NJ-NSCORT project in real time basis utilizing the internet. In its final form it will offer the users up to the minute analysis of the efficiency and status of the concurrent science and engineering effort. Successful implementation og this analysis on an interactive website will facilitate the expansion of its usage beyond NJ-NSCORT.