Teamscape LLC

Teamscape LLC is a woman-owned small business located in Piedmont, California that provides research services focused on team dynamics and crew performance for space operations. According to its website, Teamscape was founded in 2016 to perform cutting-edge research on teams in the aerospace industry, with a focus on enabling unprecedented space exploration missions.

Teamscape has received a prime contract from NASA worth $115,345 to study crew autonomy during space operations. The research will examine factors enabling effective collaboration between flight crews and ground personnel in a multi-team system, supporting NASA's efforts to enable more independent operations by spacecraft crews. Additionally, Teamscape serves as a subrecipient on research grants from NASA awarded to the Georgia Institute of Technology. These grants fund studies conducted at analog sites to prepare for longer-duration space exploration missions, with Teamscape's work concentrating on crew autonomy, coordination, and performance countermeasures.

Through subgrants from NASA via the Georgia Institute of Technology, Teamscape is conducting research to enhance the ability of multi-team system members, including space crews and mission control personnel, to maintain effective team performance and manage autonomous operations during long-duration exploration missions. This comprehensive approach involves examining varying levels of autonomy, experience with interdependent and autonomous operations, individual and team process variables, and task constraints. The research utilizes data from space analogs, the International Space Station, and NASA archives to develop models of crew autonomy, team functioning, and performance. Subsequent studies will test these models in long-duration simulations and evaluate the effectiveness of potential countermeasures.