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Los Alamos National Laboratory teams developed scientific sensors for NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. This illustration shows Cassini about to make one of its dives between Saturn and its innermost rings. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

ISR-3 group members represent a variety of backgrounds including computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, software development, system administration, and cyber security.  ISR-3 provides critical contributions to all phases of ISR’s scientific and national security missions including conception, development, testing, operations, and maintenance.

Focus Areas

Embedded and Flight Software

  • Embedded systems and flight software for ground, airborne, and space missions
  • Modular space payload hardware and software architectures
  • Advanced embedded networking technologies for space applications
  • Low-level driver implementation to support custom remote sensing hardware
  • Onboard command and control, data acquisition, and data processing

End User Systems and Operations

  • Integrated multi-sensor operator interfaces for ground, airborne, and space missions
  • Software tools and algorithms for real-time data interpretation
  • Ground support equipment for system development, validation and verification
  • Operational ground systems for command and control, data acquisition, and data distribution
  • Management and maintenance of deployed systems

Data Processing and Management

  • Data-centric standardization, automated processing pipelines, and secure archiving of data products
  • Cross-domain file transfer and integration of data exploitation methods into existing processing pipelines
  • Maintenance and operation of end-to-end modeling and simulation software framework
  • Interactive visualization of data through web applications
  • Software algorithms for operational ground systems

Computing Infrastructure, Integration, and Security

  • Design, sustain, and continually enhance computing environment as well as infrastructure
  • Adherence support to security requirements across multiple network classification levels
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to architect and maintain computing infrastructure
  • Ensure cybersecurity compliance while addressing mission and user requirements

Quality Assurance

  • Quality and information assurance standards definition and implementation
  • Evaluate and implement new tools and technologies to improve and modernize all focus areas