National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA

Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA (ODIN) is a long-term outsourcing arrangement with the commercial sector which transfers to it the responsibility and risk for providing and managing the vast majority of NASA's desktop, server and intra-center communications assets and services.

ODIN Services include: Desktops, Laptops, Servers, LAN, Mobile Computing, Phones, FAX, Local Video, Administrative Radio, Remote Communications and Public Address.

Lead Services Center (LSC) acts as a single interface with the Space Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD) Information Resource Oversight Committee (IROC), and is responsible for:

  • Managing configuration changes across the Enterprise
  • Increase Desktop Standardization across the Enterprise
  • Provide integrated Cost Reporting to the Enterprise
  • Provide integrated IT Reporting (CIO actions and requirements)
  • Increase negotiation leverage with vendors
  • Obtain Enterprise cost savings