FOR OVER THREE DECADES NASA HAS CONTINUOUSLY FUNDED LABORATORY ASTROPHYSICS AND ASTROCHEMISTRY WORK AT AMES FOCUSED ON MEASURING AND COMPUTING THE SPECTRA OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHS). DURING THIS TIME THE EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES HAVE EVOLVED AND DIVERSIFIED INTO SEVERAL LABORATORIES WITHIN THE AMES ASTROPHYSICS AND ASTROCHEMISTRY GROUP. THESE FACILITIES NOW COVER A BROAD RANGE OF WAVELENGTHS (UV-TOFIR) AND ARE SET TO ADDRESS A WIDE SCOPE OF ASTROPHYSICAL ISSUES OF INTEREST TO BOTH THE ASTROPHYSICS DIVISION AND THE PLANETARY SCIENCE DIVISION AT NASA. THE GROUP NOW PROVIDES SPECTRAL DIAGNOSTICS THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS AND ANALYTICAL TOOLS FOR SPECIES RANGING FROM FREE FLYING MOLECULES TO ICES AND DUST PARTICLES PRESENT IN INTERSTELLAR CIRCUMSTELLAR AND PLANETARY ENVIRONMENTS. MOTIVATED TO ENABLE THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY TO CONDUCT RESEARCH SUPPORTING NASA PROJECTS AND MISSIONS SUCH AS THE KAO (INITIALLY) THEN SPITZER AND SOFIA AND SOON JWST THIS ONGOING EFFORT HAS CULMINATED IN THE NASA AMES PAH IR SPECTROSCOPIC DATABASE (PAHDB) A NASA DATABASE CONTAINING THOUSANDS OF INFRARED PAH SPECTRA COUPLED TO A SET OF INNOVATIVE ASTRONOMICAL MODELS AND TOOLS.