Devin Vyain, Data Solutions Architect at Barrios, has been honored with NASA’s prestigious Space Flight Awareness (SFA) Silver Snoopy Award for his groundbreaking work in creating the Integrated Risk Insight System (IRIS). This next-generation platform – now in use across the International Space Station (ISS) and Johnson Space Center (JSC) Risk Management program – has transformed how NASA anticipates, assesses, and mitigates risk.

IRIS replaces the legacy Integrated Risk Management Application, introducing an advanced platform that creates efficiencies, streamlines processes, and enhances communication regarding risks. The intuitive, user-friendly dashboards have encouraged widespread adoption by Risk Stakeholders, increasing engagement across organizations.

Designed with scalability in mind, IRIS is already being adopted by NASA’s Commercial LEO Destinations Program, Payload Missions Operations Directorate, and Space Launch Systems Program, with plans to expand into multi-program risk management for the entire NASA Enterprise.

Devin Vyain’s work on IRIS exemplifies innovation in service of mission success, ensuring NASA programs can anticipate, assess, and address risks with unprecedented speed and precision. The Silver Snoopy Award is a fitting tribute to his outstanding contributions.

“For me, the Silver Snoopy award is evidence of the cumulative achievement of our NASA community across the past six decades,” says Devin. “Each individual awardee has passionately given their effort and dedication to contribute a discrete unit of work, upon which our concerted accomplishments are built. To be recognized as a part of that continuous chain of innovation, creativity, and engineering, for the benefit of humanity, is truly one of the greatest honors of my life.”

Photo caption: Devin Vyain (center) with Mark Polansky (left) and Kelly Page, Barrios President (right)