Goals
ITSR is one of four primary projects within NASA's Computing, Information, and Communications Technology Program, each of which includes many focused research activities.
The ITSR Project's overall goal is to research, develop, and evaluate a broad portfolio of fundamental information technology and biologically inspired nanotechnology for infusion into NASA missions.
ITSR's dynamic research portfolio currently includes development and assembly of nanoscale components; intelligent, adaptive, immersive, multi-modal control of aerospace vehicles; automated development and verification of high-confidence software; adaptive and fault-tolerant systems; and new models of computing.
To achieve our goals, the ITSR Project is currently organized into five project areas, each of which has its own specific goal:
- Intelligent Controls and Diagnostics (ICD) The goal of the ICD project is to improve component/subsystem safety and integrated system performance, and to reduce development time and operational cost.
- Evolvable Systems (ES) The goal of the ES project is to dramatically increase mission survivability and science return through development and application of biologically inspired adaptive, autonomous systems.
- Automated Software Engineering Technologies (ASET) The goal of the ASET project is to develop automated tool support for a mathematically-based discipline of Software Engineering.
- Bio-nanotechnology (BN) The goal of the BN project is to develop an in-house nanotechnology infrastructure with an emphasis on sensors (chemical, mechanical and biological), nanoelectronics and computing, and structural materials.
- Revolutionary Computing Algorithms (RCA) The goal of the RCA project is to develop alternative computing methodologies and models of computing on new platforms, suitable for the space environment, with the requisite high speed, low mass, and low power consumption necessary for future spacecraft.
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