Bagi LAPAN sebagai lembaga penelitian di bidang antariksa, asset pengetahuan yang bisa berupa individu peneliti beserta pengalamannya, hasil penelitian, serta infrastruktur pendukung seperti proses, organisasi dan metode, perlu dikelola secara signijikan untuk mencapai visi dan misinya. Penerapan manajemen pengetahuan (knowledge management) melalui suatu perencanaan strategis denga langkah awal melakukan penelitian kondisi lingkungan internal dan eksternal menggunakan analisa SWOT. Hasilnya didapat LAPAN berada pada posisi kuadran Threat ~ Weakness. Selanjutnya dilakukan pemetaan pengetahuan dan manjemen pengetahuan dengan NASA sebagai pembandingnya, sehingga didapat hasil LAPAN termasuk belum optimal dalam menerapkan manajemen pengetahuan. Langkah berikutnya, membuat perencanaan strategis manajemen pengetahuan di Pusat Teknologi Wahana Dirgantara, salah satu pusat penelitian di LAPAN.

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To LAPAN is research institute aerospace area, knowledge asset which can in the form of research individual along with its experience, result of research, and also supporter infrastructure like process, organizational and method, require to be managed by signijikan to reach vision and its mission. Applying of knowledge management passing strategic plan do step early conducting to research condition of internal and external use SWOT analysis. Its result got by LAPAN reside in on course the Threat -Weakness quadrant. Here in after done by mapping of knowledge and knowledge management with NASA as its comparator, so that got result of LAPAN is including not yet optimal in applying Knowledge management. The next step is making knowledge management strategic plan at Pusat Teknologi Wahana Dirgantara one of the research center in LAPAN.