Bureau of Tech R&D

Bureau Responsibilities

The AGT Bureau of Tech R&D is responsible for all official AGT science and technology projects in the AGT.  It is the R&D tool arm of the AGT.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Drive new project initiatives related to tech (external online technology tool developments) for the AGT.

• Document project status of ongoing tool developments.

• Communicate and promote the projects to groups outside the AGT.

• Advise and assist to maintain the AGT Galactic Archives DB Tool and database content and backups.

• Liaison with other Civs to adopt best practice for tool and software development from whatever codebase they are willing to share.

• Advise and assist to ensure data migration from Google forms as appropriate.

• Drive and implement a replacement DB strategy.

• Recruit travellers with software tech skillsets to help.

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Promote the AGT Bureau activities on the AGT official communication channels when possible (Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Discord).

• Represent the AGT to provide guidance to the NMS Fandom administrators on structure, categorization and characteristics / guidelines for the NMS wiki.

The bureau is overseen and supported by the AGT Senior Leadership Team (SLT).

Contributing to the Bureau

Any AGT Traveller with software and coding skills is welcome to contribute to the bureau. Contact an SLT member or the bureau leader to discuss further. Experience with .Net, Angular, SQL, Firebase, Appscript, Java, Python, and REACT are all desirable skills.  The AGT is actively developing next generation documentation database tools and invites everyone to contribute.

Bureau History

AGT Stardate UTC Date Event

3741.29.12 29-Dec-2025 Entity_Ziljheim appointed Bureau Head.

3741.29.12 29-Dec-2025 Renamed from Sci/Tech to Bureau of Tech R&D.

3741.29.12 29-Dec-2025 Dept of Phantom Initiative (DPI) and Stellar Cartography reorganized to Bureau of the Galactic Archives.

3739.01.01 1-Jan-2023 Leadership open.

3738.31.12 31-Dec-2022 Talinwind resigns from Bureau Head.

3738.06.30 30-Jun-2022 First Firebase Trials.

3727.24.11 24-Nov-2021 AGT NAVI declared stable to use.

3737.26.08 26-Aug-2018 AGT NAVI First release.

3737.01.08 1-Aug-2021 TalinWind appointed Bureau Head.

3736.20.05 20-May-2020 Bureau Created.