5 Free NASA Software Codes That Can Improve Your Business

Starting a new business isn't easy or cheap. Keeping a small business running is just as hard. There are many tools that small and new startup businesses need to grow successfully. Luckily, NASA has your back. Any U.S. based company can use these five tools to help with the day-to-day tasks of running their business.

Goal Performance Evaluation System

You've started your business, you've wrote out all your important goals for success, you've created your strategies to complete them all – now what? This is where NASA's Goal Performance Evaluation System comes in. This software can help you out by evaluating what you and your team have already accomplished while revealing areas that need a little more attention and focus. The system's web-based database can also be used to evaluate employee performance and improve company communications.

You can request this software here.

Closed-Loop Accounting Management System (CLAMS)

Inundated with information? Memos flying around? Inbox crashing from unread emails from employees? Let NASA's Closed-Loop Accounting Management System, also known as CLAMS, help you track, process, communicate, and store your important info to help declutter your work environment. This system also lets you know when your team receives critical info, which keeps everyone in the loop on project updates.

Access the software here.

Electronic Timecard System

Want to manage your company's payroll directly from your computer? Our free Electronic Timecard System is available to you and can rid you of those overstuffed cabinets filled with payroll paperwork. Using this software, employees can easily log and submit their hours electronically. Managers can monitor and review all of the timecards online for approval. NASA's Electronic Timecard System saves time, reduces effort, and helps eliminate payroll errors.

Submit a request for the software here.

Project Cost Estimating Capability

Estimating projects costs might seem like a painful process, but it's a fundamental part of project management. Whether you're designing a spacecraft or developing software, successful projects require accurate cost estimates. NASA's Project Cost Estimating Capability can help make things easier for you by assisting with calculations and equations and providing statistics, algorithms, and work breakdown structures. If you want to reduce the complexity of the cost estimation process then let this software be your first stop.

Read more about the software and submit a request to access it here.

Schedule Test and Assessment Tool (STAT)

Want to upgrade your Microsoft Project experience? This NASA-developed schedule management software add-in automates the reporting of project data. It's the most popular piece of code in our software catalog. Why? It provides quick, clear, and objective reporting of critical project schedule assessment information that can be used to assist in management decision making and keep projects on track.

Submit a request to download the software here.

Want more free NASA software? NASA has a whole portfolio of software that can help you run your business and manage your projects more effectively. See what else we have to offer by clicking here.