NAS Project Portfolio
The NAS Division's expertise and versatility in high-end computing and in modeling and simulation enable NAS to provide critical support to a wide array of customers and significant projects from across NASA's challenging mission areas.
Some of the key support activities in the division's project portfolio include:
- High-End Computing Capability (HECC) Project
HECC provides the high-end computing resources and expert services to NASA scientists and engineers across all of the Agency's mission organizations. - Engineering Risk Assessment (ERA)
NAS experts in risk modeling and simulation support the ERA project, which provides advanced, physics-based risk analyses to support the development of safe, reliable space launch vehicles and exploration systems. - NASA Earth Exchange (NEX)
NAS is a partner in the NASA Earth Exchange project, a collaborative environment that utilizes the Pleiades supercomputer along with a NAS-operated, custom collaboration environment for Earth scientists to gain and share new insights into how the Earth's ecosystems interact and respond to climate variability and change. Current projects include an important study to understand the carbon balance of the U.S. and the North American continent. - Security Operations Center (SOC)
Our 24x7x365 call center infrastructure and expertise is being leveraged to support NASA's Security Operations Center. NAS supports the SOC by providing overall management and implementation of the Contact Center—the single point of contact for all IT security incidents.
More Key Project Areas
- Earth Sciences: We facilitate new discoveries for a variety of research projects under the Earth Science umbrella, using the latest in-house scientific visualization tools and code optimization techniques.
- Fundamental Aeronautics: NAS staff provide modeling and simulation expertise to support all flight regimes and new designs for lowering emissions and noise for aircraft—and improving their safety and efficiency.
- Space Exploration: Our experts perform critical modeling and simulation of aerodynamic performance, as well as engineering risk assessment of crew risk probabilities, to support development of launch and commercial crew vehicles for space exploration missions beyond low-Earth orbit. This includes the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS), and the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), based on the Orion crew module design.
Project News Bites
Engineering Risk Assessment
The ERA team recently delivered the final report on their study of the historical safety and reliability trends of liquid and solid propellant stages, which will help NASA to better define the safety and mission success attributes of rocket propulsion technology options for future launch systems.
NASA Earth Exchange
The NEX network path from the U.S. Geological Survey's Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to the NAS facility in Silicon Valley, is yielding data transfer rates of up to 1 gigabit per second.
Fundamental Aeronautics
CFD experts are modeling a flapping fruit fly wing to emulate bird flight, as part of a joint research project with Stanford and other universities to develop a micro aerial vehicle.
