With NASA having a workforce of nearly 18,000 employees in the United States, the government agency turned to Box for its cloud storage and online collaboration tools. Scientists, engineers, astronauts and many more must collaborate on cloud platforms to help NASA fulfill its mission "to discover and expand knowledge for the benefit of humanity." Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie provided more information about the company's partnership with NASA in a press release, saying, "NASA is leading the way in how government agencies are leveraging modern technology to better interact with each other." with stakeholders and improve mission results. NASA's incredibly important mission, driven by its cloud and modernization strategy, and in partnership with companies like Box, is poised to help the agency bring agility to mission delivery while ensuring confidentiality and security. of confidential data. We are delighted to support NASA's advanced space exploration missions. "
Advancing in space exploration
Since 2017, NASA Johnson Space Center has used Box to drive secure collaboration and critical processes for its flight operations division to advance space exploration missions. Specifically, the government agency selected Box to provide a secure collaboration space for internal content categorized up to SBU and ITAR levels and to enable it to reduce unauthorized file-sharing systems while reducing threat exposure through tighter network controls. At the same time, NASA also implemented Box Relay to streamline the flight operations approval process for new official policies, work instructions, and government documents. The government agency even relies on Box to manage versions of documents that support the operations of the International Space Station. NASA isn't the only government agency to be associated with Box, as the US Air Force, USDA, Forest Service and Agricultural Production and Conservation, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Justice and the DC government are using all of their solutions in their day. . current operations.