The goal of the Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA) project, is to promote the growth of a national information infrastructure using the vast amount of information the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has acquired since its creation. Access to this knowledge will allow the public and industry to contribute to rapid and significant advances in science, engineering, and technology.

IITA is part of a larger government initiative, the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) program, whose mission is to accelerate the development, application, and transfer of high-performance technologies to the US engineering and science communities.

The IITA has identified the following as focus areas for its projects:

• Digital Library Technology (DLT)
• Public Use of Remote Sensing Data (RSD)
• Remote Sensing Public Access Center (RSPAC)
• K-12 Education Outreach
• K-14 Aeronautics

These programs and all of the IITA projects will increase public access to scientific databases, develop new applications and pilot programs for using science data, and create new curriculum products and tools for K-12 education -- all of this via the Internet.

• IITA 1997 Annual Report
• IITA 1996 Annual Report

If you have any questions or comments about the IITA, contact the program manager, Mark León, at mleon@mail.arc.nasa.gov.

As of September 30, 1997, the NASA Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA) project has concluded. You may wish to visit a closely related NASA initiative, the Learning Technologies Project (LTP).

The IITA Archive is maintained by NASA's Remote Sensing Public Access Center (RSPAC).
Comments to: Scott Gillespie (sgillespie@rspac.ivv.nasa.gov)