This award is for the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) Strategic Outcome Benefit Metrics Development contract, which is focused on developing metrics to capture performance across the entire National Airspace System, including commercial carriers, general aviation, and unmanned aerial systems. The contract was awarded to the Logistics Management Institute (LMI), a non-profit organization based in Tysons, Virginia, and does not have a set-aside designation. The prime contract has a...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center awarded a $448,356 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract to the National Institute of Aerospace to identify likely paths for introducing autonomous systems into routine operations of urban air mobility transportation systems. The goal is to support high-level autonomous aircraft that obviate the need for a dedicated human pilot. Under the contract, the National Institute of Aerospace will describe identified paths,...
This is a federal contract award from the Langley Research Center, a civilian agency within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research institute. The contract, valued at $199,862.00, is for the "Analysis of Remotely Managed, Small, Passenger-Carrying Autonomous Aircraft." It is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract with no set-aside designation. As a subcontractor, Duke University's...
This is a federal contract award from the Langley Research Center, a civilian NASA research center, to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research organization. The contract, valued at $652,183.00, is focused on conducting on-demand mobility (ODM) studies to investigate vehicle platforms capable of transporting small packages or up to 9 passengers at high speeds, while also exploring enabling technologies like electric propulsion and autonomous operations. The...
This is a firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters to the Logistics Management Institute (LMI), a private nonprofit foundation. The contract, which is a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) call under the General Services Administration's (GSA) Professional Services Schedule (PSS), is valued at $1,092,528.01 and runs through March 31, 2020. Under this contract, LMI will provide onsite program support to several of NASA's key...
This federal contract award to Logistics Management Institute (LMI) is for portfolio and systems analysis support to the Airspace Operations and Safety Program (AOSP) at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The $100,032.40 firm fixed-price contract, awarded through the General Services Administration (GSA) Professional Services Schedule, will provide analysis, modeling, and risk assessment to aid AOSP's research on air traffic management modernization and the Next Generation...
This federal contract award, with ID NNH13CJ77Z|NNH15CN92D, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Logistics Management Institute (LMI), a non-profit organization doing business as Noblereach Foundation. The contract, valued at $150,596.46, is a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) call under the General Services Administration's (GSA) Professional Services Schedule (PSS). It provides contractor services to support Sense and Avoid (SAA) analytical studies for...
This federal contract was awarded by the Langley Research Center (LARC), a civilian agency, to the Logistics Management Institute (LMI) under the Professional Services Schedule (PSS). The contract has a ceiling value of $1,521,015.00 and was awarded on July 21, 2010 to provide research and development services related to NASA's Airspace Systems Program (ASP). The objective is to analyze the potential benefits of ASP concepts and technologies, investigate their integration, and design a...
This federal contract award to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research organization, is an enhancement to a previous NASA study on on-demand urban air mobility (UAM). The objective is to analyze the feasibility and economics of establishing a network of regional UAM landing sites, including evaluating the potential to relax current safety guidelines to reduce land requirements and costs. The analysis will also investigate dynamic pricing fare models to...
This federal contract award, valued at $199,983.67, was issued by NASA's Headquarters to the Logistics Management Institute (LMI), a non-profit organization doing business as Noblereach Foundation. The contract, which was not set aside for any specific business category, involves conducting a study to determine the feasibility of using a "SMARTNAS" type testbed to quickly evaluate a range of air traffic management (ATM) architecture options. The study will examine the modularity of ATM...
This is a $962,949 firm fixed price definitive contract awarded by NASA to the Logistics Management Institute (LMI), a nonprofit organization, to create a new language and visualization components that can better describe increasingly autonomous systems. The goal is to address gaps in requirements development and communication for complex autonomous systems, using a use case scenario of on-demand commercial delivery of consumer products via unmanned aircraft systems. Major subcontractors include Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc., a small business engineering services company, and George Mason University, a public research university. The contract supports NASA's research into tools and methodologies for describing and communicating about autonomous systems, which is expected to be significant for the agency's future technology development. This contract was not set aside for any specific business type.