INDUS Assists NASA With Innovative Spacebook Project

VIENNA, Va., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- INDUS Corporation announced today that its National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) team assisted in the development of a pioneering NASA project called Spacebook.

Emma Kolstad Antunes, of NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center's Office of the Chief Information Officer, envisioned a private social network for NASA employees and contractors that would allow easy collaboration and communication across the agency. Ms. Antunes is the Center's Web Manager and also serves as the lead for NASA's Web Managers group.

The result of Ms. Antunes's vision is Spacebook, providing Web 2.0 collaboration capabilities for NASA, including user profiles, file sharing, social bookmarking, tagging, wikis, blogs, and user forums. Spacebook will help NASA attract and retain the next generation of scientists and engineers, who expect to use social media tools to support their work. As a longstanding IT services contractor supporting Goddard Space Flight Center, INDUS team members participated with their NASA colleagues in the development of Spacebook.

Spacebook was launched in June 2009 and has some 850 users across NASA.

In December 2009, Spacebook became a featured part of the Open Government / Innovations Gallery portion of the White House website at www.whitehouse.gov/open/innovations/spacebook. The gentleman pictured at this site and in the accompanying video is Greg Martin, a Senior Software Engineer at INDUS, who led INDUS team efforts on Spacebook.

"INDUS congratulates Emma Antunes and the entire IT team at NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center on the vision, commitment and hard work that led to Spacebook," said Carleton Jones, President of INDUS. "We feel privileged to have had the opportunity to work with our NASA colleagues on this truly innovative project."

About INDUS Corporation

INDUS Corporation is a privately held provider of IT services meeting mission-critical requirements of United States Government Civilian, Defense, Homeland Security, and Intelligence organizations. INDUS's services include Secure Infrastructure Solutions, Actionable Intelligence, Software Applications Management, and Enterprise IT Services. INDUS is an International Organization for Standards (ISO) 9001:2008 registered company, has been externally assessed as Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 2-compliant, and adheres to IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) concepts and practices for managing IT infrastructure, development and operations. For more information, please visit www.induscorp.com.

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