NASA Finds Down-to-Earth Savings

Networking, on the local level, means connection to each NASA field center's LAN. The Agency is gaining these networking advantages on a national scale as well.

Already, NASA is transmitting 59 percent of its technical reports to the field centers electronically, and by the end of this year the Agency will distribute all such reports in this manner. Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in Greenbelt, Md., is the repository for Agency forms. Field centers will come in electronically to GSFC for the form that they need and download it for electronic print-on-demand at their centers, thus eliminating the handling, mailing and warehousing of these documents.