The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a contract to Tecolote Research, Inc. to customize the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System to classify factors leading to mishaps when injury is involved. The contract, with a potential value of $167,128.61, was awarded on October 4, 2019 and has a completion date of November 20, 2020. The contract is a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) call under the General Services Administration's (GSA) Professional Services...
This federal contract award (NNL06AA05B|NNL10AC32T) was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to Honeywell International Inc.'s Aerospace Golden Valley (Advanced Technology) division. The $180,781.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract supports research to assess the impact of software health management technology on qualifying and certifying flight-critical aeronautics software. This work aligns with NASA's Aviation Safety Program, specifically...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $124,966 firm fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Qualtech Systems, Inc. (QSI) to develop a "Flexible Integrated System Health Management (ISHM) Solution for Sustainable Habitats" utilizing QSI's TEAMS (Testability, Engineering, Analysis, and Maintenance Support) toolset and associated model-based and data-driven diagnostic/prognostic reasoning technologies....
This contract, awarded by the Shared Services Center of NASA, provides funding for Qualtech Systems, Inc. (QSI) to enhance its existing model-based fault management and supportability solutions. The goal is to efficiently sequence recovery procedures, resolve conflicts and deadlocks, and handle multiple, intermittent, and coupled failure scenarios for autonomous, avionic, and robotic systems. This Phase I SBIR contract, valued at $124,980, aims to develop an ISHM (Integrated System Health...
This contract award to Mission Technologies, Inc. is for "Consolidated Risk Management for Aeronautics Research Directorate Projects - Facility Assurance, Inspection, Maintenance and Occupational Safety (FAIMOS) Support Services" for NASA's Langley Research Center. The $805,558 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract provides risk management services across several of NASA's aeronautics research programs, including the Airspace Operations and Safety Program, Advanced Air Vehicles Program, and...
This federal contract, awarded by the Langley Research Center (part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration), is focused on developing methods for assuring safety in NextGen and flight critical systems using systems theory concepts. The prime contractor is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a leading research university, which is collaborating with Honeywell International Inc., a major aerospace manufacturer, as a subcontractor. The $1,690,359 contract has no set-aside...
This is a $340,728.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by NASA's Langley Research Center to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research organization, to provide research and development support for NASA's work on attention-related human performance limitations in aviation. The contract, which has no set-aside designation, aims to develop realistic training scenarios that can induce channelized attention, confirmation bias, startle/surprise,...
This $109,934.44 federal cooperative agreement was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to conduct research on detecting emerging aviation safety risks. The project will collect and analyze data from aviation safety reporting sources, including authoritative databases like NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) as well as less structured sources like forums and blogs. The goal is to proactively...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian government agency, to Qualtech Systems, Inc., a minority-owned small business. The contract, valued at $754,696, is for research and development to enhance fault management capabilities for complex NASA systems. Specifically, the contractor will develop tools and best practices to measure, document, and validate the implementation of fault detection, isolation, and mitigation...
This is a $210,000.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the non-profit organization Flight Safety Foundation Inc. The contract is for aviation safety research, standards development, and technical guidance in support of NASA's Aeronautics program. The work will incorporate interactions with commercial airport operations. This is not a set-aside contract. The contract deliverables include an initial safety...