Organization
One-Roof Culture
CASL’s “virtual one-roof” approach is implemented through physical collocation of a strong central leadership team, interdisciplinary collaboration, regular community-building activities, execution of a single milestone-driven plan by multidisciplinary teams with access to a broad talent base, and integration of interdependent projects. The Virtual Office, Community, and Computing (VOCC) team integrates existing and emerging technologies to provide CASL participants with state-of-the-art tools for collocation or distance collaboration.
CASL engenders a virtual one-roof culture by establishing a CASL satellite at the partner locations using state-of-the-art communication and network connections between these locations to enhance and promote advanced concepts in R&D collaboration, community, and presence.
Each satellite designates a CASL space with appropriate office, collaboration, and meeting space to enable the collocation of a local multidisciplinary CASL team.
Collocation
CASL is a committed partnership among multiple scientific and engineering institutions and is committed to the delivery of CASL goals and technical products. Part of this commitment includes a collocation commitment, which over the lifetime of CASL will be a combination of physical and virtual collocation.
Because of the unique nature of this partnership, and of the hub concept, we define collocation to be a significant collection of CASL partners in one physical location for the purpose of executing CASL goals. This definition does not dictate the geographical site of the single physical location; rather, it requires that the site be a single physical setting with CASL staff gathered to conduct technical work. Often this physical location will be on the ORNL campus at the anchor CASL facility.