home.md

 
+This is the home of LIGO's Next Generation Data Delivery (NGDD) project, the aim of which is to develop a low-latency data distribution and stream processing platform to meet the needs of real-time searches for gravitational waves.
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 ## development
 
 - [requirements document (draft)](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vp5vTAA7QYvLe-GJN3nRhYmAmZ1W2ciJKLpeeSCcC3M/edit?usp=sharing)