NASA Software of the Year Awards

Next-generation operating software for International Space Station (ISS) free-flying robots that provides a flexible platform for research on zero-gravity free-flying robotics, supports guest science software, and performs ISS utility tasks.

Technology enabling civil UAS operations in low-altitude airspace.

A state-of-the-art solution for the measurement and assessment of operator workload.

Advanced, real-time, air traffic decision support software that improves the efficiency of our nation’s air transportation system in busy terminal airspace.

A software tool that provides automated integration of overset computational fluid dynamics (CFD) grids, enabling NASA to rely on overset CFD analysis as a primary data source for building aerodynamic databases for aerospace programs including the Space Shuttle, Space Launch System, Orion, and high-lift aerodynamics applications.

Estimates radiative heat flux at a body point by calculating emission and absorption of radiation along a body-normal line and integrating over all possible lines of sight to that point.

Cartography and planetary mapping software.

Next-generation training management system for crew, instructors, and flight controllers.

Systems health monitoring through examination of archived or simulated nominal sensor data using techniques and concepts from the fields of model-based reasoning, machine learning, and data mining.

A computational fluid dynamic (CFD) solver that helps mission support teams generate high-value predictive solutions for hypersonic flow field problems.

Customizable tool for semantics-based information integration, access, management, and analysis across distributed investigative work teams.

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package that streamlines the conceptual and preliminary analysis of new and existing aerospace vehicles, including NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology X-plane. By extensively automating grid generation, Cart3D enables even the most complex geometries to be modeled 100 times faster than before.

Automated system to improve coordination and planning of airport ground traffic operation.

Planning, scheduling, and execution agent that was the first artificial intelligence system to operate a spacecraft. Cited by AAAI as “one of the top achievements in the history of AI”.

A software environment for analyzing data from numerical simulations.

The INS3D code solves the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in three-dimensional generalized coordinates for both steady-state and time varying flow calculations.