NASA Ames Research Center ^{Government Ministries, Departments & Agencies}

Ames Research Center, one of 10 NASA field Centers, is located in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley. For over 60 years, Ames has led NASA in conducting world-class research and development. With 2500 employees and an annual budget of $900 million, Ames provides NASA with advancements in: - entry, descent and landing technologies, - information technology, - next-generation aviation improvements, - astrobiology, - airborne sciences and - small satellite programs Ames' Key Goals 1. Maintain expertise in information technology, aerospace and aeronautics research and engineering. 2. Conduct research in space, Earth, lunar and biological sciences. 3. Develop lead status for NASA in small spacecraft missions. 4. Expand public and private partnerships. 5. Contribute innovative, high performance and reliable exploration technologies. Areas of Ames Ingenuity: 1. Entry systems: Safely delivering spacecraft to Earth & other celestial bodies 2. Supercomputing: Enabling NASA's advanced modeling and simulation 3. NextGen air transportation: Transforming the way we fly 4. Airborne science: Examining our own world & beyond from the sky 5. Low-cost missions: Enabling high value science to low Earth orbit & the moon 6. Biology & astrobiology: Understanding life on Earth -- and in space 7. Exoplanets: Finding worlds beyond our own 8. Autonomy & robotics: Complementing humans in space 9. Lunar science: Rediscovering our moon 10.Human factors: Advancing human-technology interaction for NASA missions 11.Wind tunnels: Testing on the ground before you take to the sky