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The ISD provides mission information systems and systems components, and expertise in all phases of mission implementation. To further support our customers and maintain our expertise we provide leadership and vision in identifying, developing and/or sponsoring advanced and emerging information systems technologies.

The Information Systems Division (ISD) is part of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, organizationally located in the Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate. Over 300 ISD civil servants and their private sector partners collaborate with the science mission projects, science community and other customers to meet their information systems and technology needs.

Browse the links in the main menu bar or explore the links below to learn more about our capabilities and current projects.

• The ISD Annual Reports - a comprehensive review of last year's accomplishments and handy reference to the entire ISD.
• Strategic Plan - Where we want to be and how we'll get there.
• ISD Organization Chart
• We cover the following Technical Disciplines.

Cross-cutting Technology Support Areas

• Advanced information system architectures and standards
• Intelligent systems/mission autonomy
• Tools: Mission/project management and administrative
• Software engineering methods and processes
• Human-computer interaction

Science Support

• Data archiving and mass storage
• Data retrieval and distribution
• High-performance science computing
• Science data visualization
• Science analysis and processing systems

Mission Project Support

• Planning, control & monitoring
• Integration & test
• Onboard flight software and flight software testbeds
• Attitude & orbit prediction/ determination systems
• Science data capture, processing, management & distribution systems
• Spacecraft and instrument telemetry processing
• Simulators to verify flight readiness
• Acquisition data/network systems
• Data visualization (mission operations applications)
• Performance modeling and capacity planning
• Operations support and anomaly investigation for orbiting missions
• Orbital and suborbital missions, from JWST to ULBDs