TO SAFELY EXECUTE THE HUMAN-EXPLORATION MISSIONS CURRENTLY BEING PROPOSED BY NASA THE DESIGN OF DEEP-SPACE HABITATS REQUIRES A FUNDAMENTALLY DISRUPTIVE APPROACH ONE THAT RELIES NOT ONLY ON TRADITIONAL SUBSYSTEM RELIABILITY ENGINEERING AND PROBABILISTIC RISK ANALYSIS BUT ON EMERGENT TECHNOLOGIES IN AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS FAILURE-TOLERANT DESIGN HUMAN/AUTOMATION TEAMING DENSE SENSOR POPULATIONS DATA SCIENCE MACHINE LEARNING ROBOTIC MAINTENANCE AND ON-BOARD MANUFACTURING. ACCORDINGLY THE HOME STRI FOR DEEP SPACE HABITAT DESIGN WILL SYNTHESIZE THE IDEAS AND BACKGROUNDS OF A UNIQUELY EXPERIENCED DIVERSE AND OPERATIONALLY PRAGMATIC RESEARCH TEAM WITH INITIALLY-LOW TRL INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES TO PROVIDE A 5-YEAR FLOW OF RESEARCH DELIVERABLES THAT COMPRISE A NEW PARADIGM FOR RESILIENT AUTONOMOUS AND SELF-MAINTAINED DEEP-SPACE HABITATS FOR HUMAN EXPLORERS. THE SCOPE OF THE HOME STRI S RESEARCH WILL BE DRIVEN BY THE TWO PRIMARY OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS OF DEEP-SPACE HABITATS: 1) KEEP HUMANS ALIVE WHILE THEY ARE RESIDENT 2) KEEP THE VEHICLE ALIVE WHILE THEY ARE NOT. THE PRIMARY DELIVERABLE OF THE HOME STRI RESEARCH IS A CLASS OF NOVEL DESIGN METHODOLOGIES BEST PRACTICES AND ANALOG-VALIDATED DESIGN TOOLS. OUR APPROACH WILL DRAW FROM FUNCTION-BASED ANALYSIS OF THE SPACECRAFT AND TASK ALLOCATION OPTIONS FROM WHICH A COMBINATION OF CURRENT VALIDATED TECHNOLOGIES EXTENDED SIGNIFICANTLY BY MODERN DEVELOPMENTS IN AUTONOMY SYSTEM RESILIENCE SELF-MAINTENANCE ROBOTICS AND AI WILL BE IDENTIFIED EVALUATED AND DEMONSTRATED. THIS FUNCTIONAL-NEEDS BASED APPROACH TO SMARTHAB DESIGN RESULTS IN THE FOLLOWING BROAD CATEGORIES OF RESEARCH: A. AUTONOMOUS FUNCTIONALITY B. VEHICLE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS OPERATIONS CONCEPT C. HUMAN HABITABILITY D. ROBUST/RELIABLE VEHICLE OPERABILITY. OUR GUIDING PHILOSOPHY IS INTELLIGENT APPLICATION OF SMART-SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY. ACCORDINGLY IN EACH OF THE ABOVE RESEARCH TOPICS THE HOME STRI WILL INCORPORATE STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGIES (FROM THE FIELDS OF SPACEFLIGHT AVIATION MANUFACTURING BUILDING SCIENCE ROBOTICS MEDICINE) AND THEN WILL PUSH BEYOND CURRENT PRACTICE TO FORMULATE MISSION-RELEVANT NEW RESEARCH WITH A CONVERGENT FOCUS ON AN INTELLIGENTLY-AUTONOMOUS FUNCTIONALLY-DRIVEN REALISTICALLY-ACHIEVABLE HABITAT DESIGN.