Massa is known
for inspirational advances that change the world.
We are inventing technologies to live and work on the moon,
ensuring the health of our home planet and revolutionizing air travel.
We are also transforming the workplaces where we make all this happen.
The certain smart center project at NASA's
Langley Research Center is at the forefront of this effort.
Well, Certain was born out of a center investment made in 2014
that aimed to incorporate natural language, people, buildings
and landscape into the study of the challenges of autonomous flight.
The certain smart center project is leading
the strategic migration of certain to an enhanced capability
that will help transform NASA's Langley Center operations.
And safety activities and also create an even more robust
flight research, development and test environment.
Certain stands for city environment,
range testing for autonomous integrated navigation.
In simple terms, certain is a capability used to develop technologies
to enable a future where drones deliver goods and services
and the skies become an aerial highway for the flying vehicles of tomorrow.
In the meantime, Langley's certain smart center project
is increasing the center's use of drone flights to support daily operations
safely and efficiently perform facility inspections enable new research and more.
As part of this certain smart center effort, we're working
to increase the use of small USP vehicles or drones
within the airspace above our 800 acre research center
to support facility inspections, for example,
to inspect the exterior components of our national transonic facility.
We're also beginning to surveil the center's fence line perimeter
using a drone with an onboard camera and equipment that relays a live stream
of high definition video to an observer who is located in a building across
the campus.
The proof of concept demonstrated by the transformation of our center
will ultimately transform aviation.
Working with our partners in government and industry, certain smart center
activities will lead to dramatic changes that will deliver value
to the external community in the form of data research results
and technology transfer, and will also be positioned
to deliver value in the form of operational knowledge,
lessons learned and best practices NASA Langley.
Certain Smart Center project embodies what we do as an organization.
We are working together to improve our center and transform lives across the globe.