The NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division, at NASA Ames Research Center, comprised of three branches: Applications, Engineering, and Research, and the Physics, Simulation, and Modeling Office.

This basic organization reflects NAS's mission of researching and developing high performance computing technologies, and providing production high performance computing systems to NASA and its customers. Further, NAS has an underlying matrix organization that dovetails with the three branches and seven high-level projects encompassing all the division's work.

Each branch consists of smaller working groups that are structured around these projects, all funded and motivated by NASA missions related to space science, Earth science, aeronautics, and manned space exploration. Project managers work directly with each NASA customer to understand their requirements and determine our myriad division tasks. Branch chiefs ensure that the products and services we furnish meet those requirements.

Reporting directly to the NAS division chief, project managers and branch chiefs team with group members to decide technical direction and solutions for meeting our customers' needs. Altogether, this organizational structure fosters synergy and innovation, and provides flexibility for sharing people resources among the working groups.

The division's nearly 250 civil service and contractor employees support the Information Sciences and Technology Directorate at Ames Research Center, one of 11 NASA installations nationwide. Ames is designated as NASA's Center of Excellence for Information Technology.