Aug 5 1999
From The Space Library
NASA selected two software programs for the 1999 NASA Software of the Year award from 50 entries representing more than 150 corporations, universities, and government laboratories. In the 1970s, NASA's Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field (GRC) at that time, the Lewis Research Center-had begun to develop the first award-winning program, the Genoa/Progressive Failure Analysis Software System, to simulate and predict "aging and failure in all sorts of structural materials, including high-tech alloys and ceramics used in airplanes, cars, engines, and bridges." In 1998 NASA's Small Business Innovation Research program had commercialized the software, primarily for the use of aircraft manufacturers. Ames Research Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) had developed the other winning software, the Remote Agent program, a "precursor to self-aware, self-controlled robots, exploring rovers and intelligent machines." NASA had used the Remote Agent software to plan three days of activities for Deep Space 1, and the spacecraft had "carried out the plan without ground intervention."
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