Case Study: Ames Research Center achieves faster development, improved code quality and traceability with Atlassian

NASA’s Ames Research Center migrates to Git and takes off with Atlassian

Ames Research Center, a leading NASA R&D center in Mountain View, faced a challenge supporting 150 software and aeronautical engineers on the safety‑critical NextGen air-traffic modernization program. The team needed secure, manageable Git workflows that complied with NASA development and testing processes, and found Git’s built‑in management and control features insufficient for their environment.

Ames adopted Atlassian’s suite—Bitbucket, Jira, Crucible, Fisheye, and Confluence—integrating issue tracking with browser-based code navigation, strict authentication for remote pulls, and in‑tool code review. With help from Atlassian partner Go2Group to migrate decades of history, the installation grew to 40 projects and ~200 repositories; within two months the team reported faster collaboration, better traceability and code quality, simplified reviews, and clearer managerial visibility.

AMES

Michelle Eshow

An Aerospace Engineer