NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Earth Science Division, Washington, selected several institutions for grants to support the agency’s Advanced Information Systems Technology Program.
The main purpose of the program is to invest in research and development of new and innovative information technologies. The program focuses on creating mature technologies leading to smaller, less resource-intensive and less expensive flight systems that can be built quickly and efficiently, and on more-efficient ground-based processing and modeling systems that improve the use of Earth science data. Institutions and maximum grant values:
– George Mason University, Greenbelt, $1,408,271
– NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, $4,240,000
– Institute of Global Environment and Society, Inc., Beltsville, $1,174,859
The research also supports the Vision for Space Exploration, NASA’s long- term plan to return astronauts to the moon and extend exploration to Mars and beyond.
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