Discovery and Systems Health
The Discovery and Systems Health (DaSH) Technical Area focuses on data understanding challenges in engineering and science. The engineering data understanding work in the Technical Area is centered around Integrated Systems Health Management (ISHM). The DaSH area has over 50 engineers and researchers skilled in various aspects of this emerging systems engineering discipline, making ARC (and DaSH) the premier research and development facility for ISHM at NASA. ARC strengths in ISHM include design of health management systems, ISHM systems engineering, sensor selection and optimization, monitoring, data analysis, prognostics, diagnostics, failure recovery, diagnostic decision aids, data and knowledge management, and ISHM human factors.

Autonomous Systems and Robotics
Ames Research Center has unique expertise and agency leadership in applying autonomy to NASA missions, developing the individual technologies required, and integrating these pieces into autonomous systems for flight missions and terrestrial demonstrations.

Robust Software Engineering
Our teams are developing and testing technologies that automate mathematical approaches for the analysis and generation of mission-critical software. These projects target sustained engineering, achieving affordable reliability over successive spirals of missions software development, and maintenance and upgrades for mission-critical software.

Collaborative and Assistant Systems
Most of a mission's viability, cost and safety is affected by the people responsible for its operation. These people are mission planners, launch and flight controllers, pilots and remote explorers, facilities and maintenance staff, and myriad engineers responsible for preserving and applying knowledge in the design phase and throughout the life of the mission. Information technology has a dramatic influence on mission operations.