Federal award (DELIVERY ORDER, fiscal year 2021)
Recipient: SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Funding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Period of performance: 2018-04-01 to 2023-06-30
Current total value of award: $4819155.13
Description: THE DATA ANALYTICS TEAM IS FOCUSED ON IMPROVING THE USE, MANAGEMENT AND APPLICATION OF DATA BY RAPIDLY PROTOTYPING, DEVELOPING AND DEPLOYING SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS THE MOST PRESSING ANALYTIC CHALLENGES AT NASA.  THE TEAM PROVIDES A TESTBED TO FOSTER EXPERIMENTATION AND UNLOCK OPPORTUNITIES FOR PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT BETWEEN MISSION DIRECTORATES AND PROBLEM SOLVERS THROUGH THE ABILITY TO HARNESS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN NEW AND CREATIVE WAYS THAT CAN BE REPLICATED ACROSS PROGRAMS.  IT WILL ALSO SERVE AS A MECHANISM TO ATTRACT TOP DATA SCIENCE TALENT.