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wide variety of media formats.
Users can choose to download files
at a range of resolutions and also have access to captioning files for videos. In the first four months after the site went live, close to 1 million users accessed the library.
NASA is developing new features, in- cluding an advanced search option and image galleries related to specific events and topics.
NASA’s centers are focusing on adding the most popular images to the site.
For instance, before the solar eclipse in August, the centers were asked to add images and footage of eclipses in the 1970s. Officials are also gathering im- agery from the Apollo 11 moon landing ahead of the 50th anniversary in 2019.
“By having one place to put all of
our imagery, the library will eventually render all of the other galleries on center websites moot because there will be duplication,” Grubbs said. “Once we get subject-specific galleries added to the library, the other NASA sites with images would probably go away because they will be fully redundant.”
Finalist
Standardizing and securing Navy systems in the cloud
CNIC N9 GovCloud
Fleet and Family Readiness Division, Navy
One of IT modernization’s biggest challenges is breaking down the
many technology fiefdoms within an organization. When every group has its own way of doing something, effecting change is hard and guarding against cyberthreats is even harder.
“All our bases around the world... had their own websites,” said Raven Solutions CEO Ryan Pratt, who led the transition to the cloud for the Com- mander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) Fleet and Family Readiness (N9) program. “People were getting hacked at the headquarters level.”
CNIC CIO Bruce Hidaka-Gordon sought to remedy that situation by hosting all CNIC N9’s unclassified data — including websites, content management systems, mobile apps,
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