The RSD effort is composed of 20 projects funded by the NASA Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA) initiative, establishing partnerships between government, private business and academia to promote the use of Earth and space science data over the Internet.
The DLT project supports the development of new technologies to facilitate public access to NASA data via computer networks. Technologies that develop tools, applications, and software and hardware systems, that are able to scale upward to accomodate evolving user requirements and order-of-magnitude increases in user access, are of highest priority.
The RSPAC is a cooperative program among the NASA Office of Aeronautics Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA) Program, BDM International, and West Virginia University. The RSPAC is located at the NASA Software Independent Verification and Validation Center in Fairmont, West Virginia.
The activities supported in these projects are largely based on World Wide Web (WWW) servers on the Internet. The progress of these activities can be followed by watching their corresponding Uniform Resource Locators.