NASA’s Independent Verification and Validation, or IV&V, Program has received approval to lease office space to co-locate its workforce to provide more effective safety and mission assurance support to software for NASA’s critical missions. The original NASA IV&V Facility was the first building to be raised in the Park nearly 20 years ago. At one time, the entire workforce was housed together at the facility. With the expansion of IV&V’s mission activities original IV&V facility no longer provided enough space to house the combined workforce, causing many contractors to be located off.
This summer, IV&V management’s plan to lease 33,380 square feet of office and related space from H.T. Foundation Holdings Inc., was approved. About 135 members of the combined will begin to move into the newly leased building this fall. In the IV&V Program, about 44 NASA civil service personnel and 170 contractor personnel collaborate on NASA mission critical activities and IV&V Program support functions. The original facility will continue to be home to many NASA civil service and contractor personnel as well to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and U.S. Army programs. NASA will provide and maintain the information technology infrastructure at both the original IV&V facility and at 5000 NASA Boulevard.
Jim Estep, president and chief executive officer of the West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation, said, “the NASA IV&V Facility has been a critical piece of the growth of the I-79 Technology Park. It has served as an anchor for the Park by not only making substantial contracting opportunities available, but also employing NASA personnel.”>
IV&V expects measurable savings to the government because of the co-location, as well as the tangible and intangible benefits of innovation and teamwork that result when its civil service and contractor personnel are working side by side assuring the safety of the software on NASA’s most critical missions. IV&V’s Acting Director, Greg Blaney, supportive of the effort to “bring all the NASA IV&V family home,” spoke of how proud he and the members of the civil service and contractor teams are to be “part of West Virginia’s involvement in NASA’s missions. We have to do the very best we can together”
Kathleen Millson
NASA IV&V Office of Public Affairs
Kathleen.m.millson@nasa.gov
304-367-8445