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NASA's '''Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) Program''' was established in 1993 as part of an agency-wide strategy to provide the highest achievable levels of safety and cost-effectiveness for mission critical software. NASA's IV&V Program was founded under the [https://web.archive.org/web/19961121192126/http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codeq/ NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA)] as a direct result of recommendations made by the National Research Council (NRC) and the Report of the Presidential Commission on the [[Space Shuttle Challenger disaster|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster]].<ref>[https://history.nasa.gov/sts51l.html
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▲NASA's Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) Program was established in 1993 as part of an agency-wide strategy to provide the highest achievable levels of safety and cost-effectiveness for mission critical software. NASA's IV&V Program was founded under the [http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codeq/ NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA)] as a direct result of recommendations made by the National Research Council (NRC) and the Report of the Presidential Commission on the [https://history.nasa.gov/sts51l.html Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster].
Since then, NASA's IV&V Program has experienced growth in personnel, projects, capabilities, and accomplishments. NASA IV&V efforts have contributed to NASA's improved safety record since the program's inception. Today, [[Independent Verification and Validation]] (IV&V) is an Agency-level function, delegated from OSMA to Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and managed by NASA IV&V. NASA's IV&V Program's primary business, software IV&V, is sponsored by OSMA as a software assurance technology. Having been reassigned as GSFC, NASA IV&V is Code 180 (Center Director's direct report).
NASA's IV&V Program houses approximately 270 employees and leverages the expertise of in-house partners and contractors. Its facilities are located in [[Fairmont, West Virginia]]. In the summer, high school and college interns are employed in addition.
On February 22, 2019, the facility was renamed to the '''Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility''' in honor of [[Katherine Johnson]], an African-American woman who worked as a mathematician at NASA for 35 years and who is featured in the 2016 film ''[[Hidden Figures]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cook |first1=Gina |title=NASA Honors
== Affiliations ==
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=== Simulation-to-Flight 1 (STF-1) ===
Simulation-to-Flight 1 ([[STF-1]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Simulation To Flight 1 |url=https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ivv/jstar/stf1.html |website=National Aeronautics and Space Administration |publisher=NASA |
JSTAR had a huge outreach opportunity with [[West Virginia University]] through the support of NASA IV&V and West Virginia Space Grants Consortium (WVSGC). By being partnered with JSTAR engineers and scientists, WVU Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics departments got to learn first-hand the rewards and challenges involved in working in any [[Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics|STEM]] career such as with NASA. More specifically, WVU provided their experimental ideas and worked alongside the JSTAR team to incorporate their scientific instruments into STF-1.
Along with offering their professional project management, JSTAR has supported WVU in their scientific development and research. By offering their software resources to this CubeSat, STF-1 has the capability of recording data once it is launched into orbit around Earth—data that can be sent directly to WVU for STEM research and the education of future scientists.
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For example, these NOS technologies, among them NOS3, have demonstrated significant value in several areas such as: the James Webb Space Telescope, Global Precipitation Measurement, Juno, and Deep Space Climate Observatory in the areas of software development, mission operations/training, verification and validation, test procedure development, and software systems check-out.
STF-1 launched into [[Low Earth orbit]] on a [[Rocket Lab]] [[Electron (rocket)|Electron]] rocket on December
[[File:STF-1 CubeSat.jpg|thumb|none|The fully assembled STF-1 CubeSat.]]
== Educator Resource Center ==
Thanks to a grant with [[Fairmont State University]], the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120612114223/http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ivv/education/erc_index.html Independent Verification and Validation Program Educator Resource Center] (ERC) provides resources and training opportunities for approximately 1,000 in-service, pre-service, and informal educators and in West Virginia annually. The materials and training cover a wide range of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics. The ERC also loans hands-on STEM kits to trained teachers which impact over 10,000 students per year in the state. The on-site student outreach program brings over 2,000 youth to the facility annually to experience workshops on robotics, rocketry, aviation, and other STEM topics. The ERC also runs numerous student STEM competitions in the fields of robotics and aviation. Starting in 2012 the ERC became the partner for the FIRST LEGO League competition and has overseen a rapid growth in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130704110944/http://
== See also ==
*[[Verification and validation]]
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