Capabilities
We Design, Build, and Operate NASA's Most Critical Cloud-Native Systems. We Engineer the Hardware That Flies. We Sit on Console When It Matters Most.
Systems We've Built for NASA
We partner with NASA to architect, develop, secure, and operate cloud-native systems using the best of open-source solutions, cloud provider services, and bespoke integrations. These are NASA systems, delivered by MRI.
Luna Platform
MRI designed and built Luna as a CUITAM-authorized cloud platform with federated identity, zero-trust architecture, AI services, and on-demand API-driven HPC on NASA. Luna enables secure internal and external collaboration around cloud-native systems at NASA's most sensitive data classification levels.
Cloud-native operational data platform for real-time decision-making across distributed teams.
MRI built the Luna AI Agent capability from whiteboard concept to inclusion in NASA's Artemis 2 Flight Readiness Review in four months. The platform has attracted direct industry investment to expand capabilities, and major MRI prime contractors have onboarded to the system.
AppDat
MRI developed AppDat as an agency-wide zero-trust DevSecOps platform for NASA, spanning two of the agency's largest infrastructure vehicles. AppDat hosts and supports 15+ mission and mission-support programs across multiple NASA centers.
Enterprise application hosting and infrastructure management at scale.
MRI grew AppDat from a $0.5M GCD innovation grant into a centerpiece of NASA's cloud-native infrastructure ecosystem across multiple centers. The platform provides container hosting, orchestration, configuration management, and security monitoring.
COSMIC
MRI designed and built COSMIC as JSC's most capable digital thread application, managing EVA hardware safety history and extending to support Safety and Mission Assurance, JCE Engineering, UMP, and Flight Operations. MRI has delivered multi-tenant capabilities now supporting commercial partner onboarding.
Digital safety and compliance tracking for high-consequence operations.
COSMIC is gaining strong interest from the NASA prime contractor community, with multiple primes supporting their own COSMIC instances to integrate into their spacecraft digital engineering ecosystems.
FAST AI Services
MRI developed FAST as an LLM model serving platform and MCP Gateway for NASA, delivering Frontier AI models with NASA's SSO CUITAM security frameworks that allow integration from any authorized AI client application, with API-key approval available to mission users across built-in public and CUITAM data classifications.
AI/ML model serving and integration platform with enterprise authentication and access controls.
FAST provides power-user AI capabilities to NASA personnel through secure, governed access to frontier language models. The MCP Gateway enables tool-use capabilities that connect AI agents to NASA data systems.
NTRS / STRIVES
MRI modernized NASA's public science and technical information portal, now serving 500K+ API requests per month with full-text search and direct download. MRI also built the peer-review submission and curation system that accelerates dissemination of NASA's most critical knowledge assets.
Large-scale document management, search, and video archival for institutional knowledge preservation.
NTRS has served as a critical hosting data resource for Frontier AI models, adding to recall of the diverse observations MRI delivered through the STRIVES submission system.
Aerospace Engineering Disciplines
Engineering rigor built for spaceflight, applied wherever failure is not an option.
The technical practices and capabilities MRI brings to every engagement, refined across a decade of designing, fabricating, testing, and certifying flight hardware for NASA's most demanding programs.
Systems Engineering & Subsystem Management
MRI engineers serve as subsystem managers and systems engineers across critical NASA hardware systems, taking ownership from requirements development through testing, verification, certification, and return to operations.
Hardware Design, Fabrication & Test
Full lifecycle hardware capability from CAD design and 3D modeling through cleanroom assembly, bonding and potting, harness fabrication, environmental testing, and flight certification to NASA standards.
Mechanical & Structural Engineering
Structural analysis across static, dynamic, thermal, and fatigue loading using NASTRAN and ANSYS. Pressure vessel and fluid system design, fracture mechanics, mechanism design, and load path verification for flight systems.
Electrical Engineering & Avionics
Cable and harness design, avionics integration and checkout, electronic circuit prototyping, power system analysis, embedded controller development, and Electrical Ground Support Equipment for crewed spacecraft systems.
Software Engineering & Data Systems
Embedded flight software, Model-Based Systems Engineering with DOORS and MagicDraw, full-stack web development, enterprise data systems, cybersecurity compliance, and spacecraft Computer Human Interface design.
Facility Operations & Test Infrastructure
Management of NASA's premier test facilities including the Space Environment Simulation Laboratory (Chamber A and B), thermal vacuum systems, altitude chambers, cryogenics, avionics integration labs, and cleanroom processing areas.
Mission Domain Expertise
28+ years of institutional spaceflight knowledge that no pure technology company can replicate. This is what makes the systems we build actually work for NASA's missions.
EVA Hardware & Spaceflight Systems
Full lifecycle management of spacesuit hardware and flight components. EMU sustaining engineering, xEVAS next-generation spacesuit development, real-time MER console operations during every ISS spacewalk, crew training support, and flight hardware readiness certification. Bond room operations and configuration management spanning both Amentum JETS-II and Collins ESOC contracts.
ISS Life Support & Subsystems
Subsystem ownership of the systems that keep astronauts alive: ECLSS environmental control, CDRA carbon dioxide removal, UPA water recovery, Caution and Warning systems, Crew Health Care System medical hardware, Command and Data Handling MDMs, and power distribution. From anomaly investigation through root cause analysis to corrective action and return to operations.
Exploration & Next-Generation Programs
Active contributions to programs extending human presence beyond low-Earth orbit. Gateway HALO module systems engineering and Computer Human Interface development. Orion spacecraft avionics and display systems for Artemis I through VIII. Exploration life support systems for long-duration missions. ISS-to-Exploration transition planning and digital engineering transformation.
Flight Operations & Decision Support
Cloud-native platforms operating inside NASA's Flight Operations Directorate, supporting mission-critical decision making for ISS operations and Artemis campaigns. Luna Platform AI agents providing real-time data synthesis for Flight Readiness Reviews. COSMIC managing hardware safety data across multiple programs. FAST enabling frontier AI access for mission analysis.
Safety, Quality & Mission Assurance
Flight hardware quality processes to AS9100 and NASA-STD-5009 standards. Hazard analysis and risk assessment, Material Review Board support, non-conformance resolution, calibration management and metrology. Space Flight Awareness program participation. Process improvement through Lean/Six Sigma methodologies and continuous compliance monitoring.
Science & Technical Information
Modernizing how NASA disseminates its most valuable knowledge assets. Peer-review submission, approval, curation, and public access systems serving the global research community at scale. NTRS serving 500K+ API requests monthly. STRIVES enabling the scientific publication pipeline that makes NASA research accessible worldwide.
Industry Leaders Invest Alongside NASA
Major cloud providers, security leaders, and aerospace primes invest alongside NASA in the systems MRI builds, expanding capabilities and accelerating delivery.
NASA Prime Contractors
Cloud & Infrastructure
Supply Chain Security
These partnerships go beyond vendor relationships. Multiple partners have made direct financial and technical contributions to expand the capabilities of the NASA systems MRI develops and sustains, driving commercial interest back into NASA's ecosystem.
Build With Us
NASA Programs: Partner with a team embedded across NASA for 35+ years.
Commercial & Government Partners: Access institutional spaceflight knowledge and modern platform capabilities for your most demanding environments.
Engineers & Technologists: Small team, big work, real missions.
Collaborators: Let's work together to dare mighty things and go after new opportunities to create more mission impact.