Accelerating network cybersecurity and performance improvements in benefit to agency missions

Challenge: NASA’s IT infrastructure plays a critical role in all aspects of NASA’s mission, from enabling collaboration to controlling spacecraft to processing scientific data. The nature of NASA’s mission and the technical and intellectual capital produced makes the agency’s information a valuable target for hackers, criminals, and foreign enterprises. Therefore, NASA must continue to strengthen technical and procedural capabilities to defend agency IT systems and data.

Approach: With TMF support, NASA will:

• Increase network management automation, standardize configurations, and collect additional telemetry to help meet requirements of federal mandates on cybersecurity
• Accelerate vital work that will improve effectiveness and introduce efficiencies through the standardization of network configurations across all NASA locations