en.Wedoany.com Reported - Due to persistent budget constraints leading to aging data center infrastructure, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is seeking partners for modernization upgrades and has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to this effect.

NASA stated that its data center infrastructure is "in a state of continuous decline due to budget constraints" and urgently requires modernization to ensure the security, continuity, and efficiency of mission operations. Any upgrade plan must be cost-effective while meeting growing computing demands and hybrid architectures. The agency specifically emphasized that it is "interested in ideas that highlight shared value," hoping respondents will propose concepts to improve mission continuity and enhance infrastructure sustainability, and clarify how collaboration can empower commercial capabilities, support research and development, or validate new models and technologies.

There is currently no guarantee that this RFI will directly lead to subsequent proposal requests or contracts. Under the Trump administration, NASA faced ongoing budget pressures, with the president proposing a 23% cut to the agency's total budget and a 46% cut to science program budgets for fiscal year 2027. In May, a spending bill passed by the U.S. House Appropriations Committee kept NASA's fiscal year 2026 budget flat, with smaller cuts to science programs. Budget uncertainty has already impacted infrastructure deployment; last August, NASA suspended plans to procure a lunar communications ground station.

In a special report from 2024, the NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) noted that insufficient high-end computing (HEC) resources have hindered the agency's ability to execute missions. Most of the supercomputers used for the Artemis lunar program still rely on outdated central processing units (CPUs).

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