At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), ERC provides network engineering, network administration and system
administration services for a wide range of JPL customers such as the Deep Space Network, Cassini, Mars Odyssey
and other space programs such as the JPL Project Design Center and the JPL Proposal Center. ERC implements Computer
Security policies and procedures to ensure compliance with Automated Information Security program requirements.
ERC’s advanced IT capabilities are employed when projects demand supercomputing resources, management of wide-band
data processing, or sophisticated data sampling, data compression, and data analysis techniques. ERC’s areas of
expertise for these high-end classes of IT capabilities include computational fluid dynamics, computational
technology, knowledge based systems, neural network and genetic algorithm systems, automatic control systems,
intelligent control systems, computations, mechanics, virtual testing / simulation concept, virtual testing ,
high-performance computing, and telemetry and communications systems.
As part of our large engineering and technical services contracts supporting US Army, US Air Force, and NASA
customers, ERC personnel routinely support software development efforts and IT network administration activities.
For example, ERC personnel were part of a team that developed a modeling tool called Generalized Fluid Systems Simulation
Program (GFSSP), which was awarded NASA's Software of the Year award in 2001. This software was developed as a modeling
tool for internal fluid circuits and networks for the Space Shuttle Main Engine. In support of the Missile Defense Agency
(MDA), ERC personnel provide network support for their Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) STAR Lab’s classified network,
and manage the daily operations and infrastructure of the lab.
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