At NAS, our work is driven by our mission, defined by project goals, and delivered through the completion of tasks. Most of the funding for the division's projects is provided through various NASA programs, offices, and orojects. Here is a brief summary of current projects that shape our daily efforts.

Grid Engineering
Formerly known as the Information Power Grid (IPG) project, NAS' grid engineering work is part of an agency-wide effort to develop and deploy the next generation of computational capabilities to enable NASA missions. Nationally, the NASA grid will be an important instance of the grid paradigm for high-speed computing applications. Primary funding of this project is provided by the Computing, Information, and Communication Technologies (CICT) Program.

Consolidated Supercomputing Management Office (CoSMO)
NAS is one of the primary performing organizations for the delivery of production computing cycles for NASA missions through CoSMO. We support the activities of about 400 CoSMO users on the SGI Altix and Origin systems.

NASA Research and Education Network (NREN)
NREN is an experimental networking project whose goal is to provide both a high performance network application testbed and a network research testbed for the NASA community and its partners. NREN is the cornerstone of NASA's participation in the government-wide Next Generation Internet (NGI) project. Funding for this project is through the Computing, Information and Communication Technologies (CICT) Program.