HCIE Enables Special Delivery of HC Information
This month, NASA begins an agencywide rollout of the Human Capital Information Environment (HCIE), a self-service Web portal and data warehouse that provides access to human capital information. This new agency-wide human resource system will be used for hiring, training, competency management, employment benefits and workforce management-- all from a single location.
The HCIE will enable employees, managers and human resource specialists to conduct human capital business from their desktop with the same ease and privacy features found in online banking.

The HCIE connects NASA's Office of Human Capital Management, Integrated Enterprise Management Program and the NASA Shared Services Center for near, real-time delivery of comprehensive, integrated workforce information from budget, finance, payroll and security systems.
Image right: HCIE combines NASA's independent human capital information tools into one integrated environment.
"With one sign-on—your Universal Uniform Personal Identification Code—you can access a robust suite of familiar NASA human resource systems/applications to manage your career and/or workforce, share information, keep up to date on human capital information, search for people and more," explained Nola Bland, Glenn HCIE project lead, Organization Development and Training Office. "HCIE will be particularly beneficial to new employees to learn their way around the agency/center and to aid them in career planning."
Bland said that HCIE is part of NASA's effort to expand e-Government, one of five keys to effective management defined by the President's Management Agenda. HCIE provides for efficient and effective electronic delivery of NASA human capital information, tools and services using:
- A personnel data warehouse that serves as a comprehensive storage for NASA human capital information;
- Applications used to manage human resources and reporting tools integrated with legacy applications within NASA;
- A single, standalone web-based portal that enables communication and collaboration among a variety of programs and communities of practice including employees, managers/supervisors, program/project managers, workforce planners, security and human resource specialists.
How will this new system benefit employees and managers? Employees can now retrieve information on career opportunities, skills, training, etc. Plus, "My Information Page" offers employees personalized human capital information to create a file on awards and recognition, personnel actions and benefits.
Supervisors, managers and project leaders can use the HCIE as an authoritative data source for personnel and payroll information, awards, recruitment and hiring, performance, training, competency information and workforce planning.
"HCIE should be a useful tool for both employees and managers" said Ken Aguilar, director of Center Operations. HCIE is what human capital programs should be—accessible and practical for planning and accomplishing your future needs and goals."
More information on the HCIE and transitioning activities is available internally at
http://workforce.grc.nasa.gov/hcie/hcie.asp or contact Nola Bland, 216-433-9343; Ron Mullenax, 216-433-6363; or Kelly Heidman, 216-433-2234.
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By S. Jenise Veris