Editing Ames Research Center (section)

== Public-private partnerships ==

The federal government has re-tasked portions of the facility and human resources to [http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/business/index.html support] private sector industry, research, and education.

[[Hewlett-Packard|HP]] became the first corporate affiliate of a new Bio-Info-Nano Research and Development Institute (BIN-RDI); a collaborative venture established by the [[University of California Santa Cruz]] and NASA, based at Ames. The Bio|Info|Nano R&D Institute is dedicated to creating scientific breakthroughs by the convergence of biotechnology, information technology, and nanotechnology.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hermansson |first=Ralph |date=March 8, 2007 |title=HP joins public-private tech research consortium / Computer-maker's capital crucial to UC Santa Cruz-NASA effort |url=https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/hp-joins-public-private-tech-research-consortium-2611428.php}}</ref>

[[Singularity University]] hosts its leadership and educational program at the facility. The [[Organ Preservation Alliance]] [http://www.organpreservationalliance.org/] is also headquartered there; the Alliance is a nonprofit organization that works in partnership with the [[Methuselah Foundation]]'s [[Methuselah Foundation#New Organ Prize|New Organ Prize]] "to catalyze breakthroughs on the remaining obstacles towards the long-term storage of organs" to overcome the drastic unmet medical need for viable organs for transplantation. [[Kleenspeed Technologies]] is headquartered there.

===Google===
On September 28, 2005, [[Google]] and Ames Research Center disclosed details to a long-term research partnership. In addition to pooling engineering talent, Google planned to build a {{convert|1000000|sqft|ha|adj=on}} facility on the ARC campus.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2005/05_50AR.html |title=NASA Takes Google on Journey into Space |publisher=NASA Ames |access-date=September 29, 2005 |archive-date=March 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318184559/http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2005/05_50AR.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> One of the projects between Ames, Google, and [[Carnegie Mellon University]] is the [[Gigapan]] Project – a robotic platform for creating, sharing, and annotating terrestrial [[gigapixel]] images. The Planetary Content Project seeks to integrate and improve the data that Google uses for its [[Google Moon]] and [[Google Mars]] projects.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/tech/asr/intelligent-robotics/planetary/ |title=ti.arc.nasa |publisher=Ti.arc.nasa.gov |access-date=2014-05-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020223856/https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/tech/asr/intelligent-robotics/planetary/ |archive-date=2016-10-20 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> On 4&nbsp;June 2008, Google announced it had leased {{convert|42|acre|m2}} from NASA, at [[Moffett Field]], for use as office space and employee housing.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/04/BU3K113886.DTL |title=Google leases acreage at Moffett for complex |date=June 4, 2008 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |first=Verne |last=Kopytoff |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Construction of the new Google project which is near Google's [[Googleplex]] headquarters began in 2013 and has a target opening date in 2015. It is called "Bay View" as it overlooks [[San Francisco Bay]].

In May&nbsp;2013, Google announced that it was launching the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, to be hosted by ARC. The lab will house a 512&nbsp;[[qubit]] [[quantum computer]] from [[D-Wave Systems]], and the [[Universities Space Research Association]] (USRA) will invite researchers from around the world to share time on it. The goal being to study how quantum computing might advance machine learning.<ref>{{cite web |title=Launching the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab |date=May 16, 2013 |url=http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/launching-quantum-artificial.html |publisher=Research@Google Blog |access-date=16 May 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Jones |first=Nicola |date=16 May 2013 |title=Google and NASA snap up quantum computer |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.12999 |journal=Nature|doi=10.1038/nature.2013.12999 |s2cid=57405432 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Rincon |first=Paul |date=20 May 2014 |title=D-Wave: Is $15m machine a glimpse of future computing? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27264552 |website=BBC News}}</ref>

Announced on November 10, 2014, Planetary Ventures LLC (a Google subsidiary) will lease the [[Moffett Federal Airfield]] from NASA Ames, a site of about 1,000&nbsp;acres formerly costing the agency $6.3&nbsp;million annually in maintenance and operation costs.<ref>{{cite web |title=NASA Signs Lease with Planetary Ventures LLC for Use of Moffett Airfield and Restoration of Hangar One |url=http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/november/nasa-signs-lease-with-planetary-ventures-llc-for-use-of-moffett-airfield-and/#.Vp-ov5R4dvs |publisher=National Aeronautics and Space Agency |access-date=20 January 2016 |date=2014-11-10 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> The lease includes the restoration of the site's historic landmark [[Hangar One (Moffett Field, California)|Hangar One]], as well as hangars Two and Three. The lease went into effect in March&nbsp;2015, and spans 60&nbsp;years.