I work there. I'm WVU CSEE faculty and I consult to the OSMA program, under the direction of NASA civil servants. It's an exciting++ job.

The IV&V Facility in Fairmont, West Virginia is responsible for verifying that software developed or acquired to support NASA missions complies with the stated requirements. Additionally, the Facility validates that the software is suitable for its intended use. In short, the Facility ensures that the software is being developed properly, and that the right software is being developed or acquired.

As the sole entity with the responsibility for IV&V of all NASA mission software, the IV&V Facility is in a unique position to create and maintain a master repository of software metrics. Under this charter, the IV&V Facility reviews requirements, code, and test results from NASA's most critical projects; hence, many of the required metrics are collected as a matter of course.

No other organization has insight into such a broad range of NASA projects. This affords the IV&V Facility an unequalled opportunity to research not only the early life cycle indicators of software quality, but other topics as well.

Many large corporations have similar software metrics repositories; however, it is not always in their best interest to release data or results to the public. In the case of the IV&V Facility, the objective is to improve NASA's mission software regardless of the source.

Once NASA projects agree to distribution, then sanitized data (sanitized data has project-specific identifiers removed) can be made available to NASA, industry, and academia to support software development and research by other organizations (e.g. at the MDP data site or my data page). This is consistent with the IV&V Facilities research vision of "See more, learn more, tell more."