This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Dependable Computing LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The contract, valued at $124,892.00, is for the development of low-cost, high-assurance autonomous capabilities for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) through the application of formal methods to runtime assurance. The goal is to enable safer and more cost-effective UAS...
This federal contract award, worth up to $4,379,195.00, was issued by the Langley Research Center (LARC) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Honeywell International Inc.'s Aerospace Golden Valley (Advanced Technology) division. The contract falls under NASA's ARMD NRA - RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT major program code and is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee delivery order. The objective of this contract is to create an assembly of analytical tools and techniques that avionics...
This is a $2,393,510.00 firm fixed-price contract awarded by NASA's Ames Research Center to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for the Verification and Validation of Flight Critical Systems (VVFCS) project. The goal is to develop verification and validation tools and algorithms for complex flight-critical software systems used in next-generation air and ground applications. Key tasks include developing compositional verification and automated test-case generation algorithms to improve the...
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...
This federal contract award is for "INDEPENDENT MODEL VERIFICATION" services to be provided by The Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) focused on the space enterprise. The $414,192.53 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Langley Research Center. The scope of the contract is for The Aerospace Corporation to participate in team meetings, provide expert advice and guidance,...
This is a federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research and graduate education institute. The $115,233.00 contract is for a project titled "Paths to Vehicle Autonomy" that aims to generate insight into achieving full vehicle autonomy. The contract has no set-aside designation. NIA has issued a $[amount redacted] subcontract to Advanced...
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 $123,805.25 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Quanser Consulting Inc., a for-profit organization registered in the System for Award Management (SAM). The contract is for a Quanser Autonomous Vehicles Research Studio to support research and development of autonomous systems, robotics, and artificial intelligence at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The contract was awarded on a...
Near Earth Autonomy, Inc. was awarded a $149,885 firm fixed price purchase order by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to deliver SBIR Phase I Continuous Autonomy Runtime Monitoring to Assure Consistent Operational Safety. The work will be performed in Homewood, Pennsylvania over an approximately seven-month period concluding in February 2024. Designated as a total small business set aside, this contract supports NASA's efforts to develop autonomous...
This $125,000.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Bluehalo Labs, LLC, doing business as Intelligent Automation, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract is for a "360-Degree Analysis Engine for Autonomous NAS Operations and Control" and will allow NASA researchers to evaluate the performance and environmental impact of ground-based conflict detection and...
This is a $490,392.00 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to Dependable Computing LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The contract's scope is to investigate the verification, validation, and certification implications on autonomous systems that provide safety mechanisms currently provided by humans. The contract objectives are to identify: safety requirements when the human role in a system's operation is reduced or eliminated due to autonomy; changes necessary in systems safety assurance methods to account for changes to human roles; changes necessary in system architectures to provide an equivalent or better level of safety for autonomous systems; and new verification and validation capabilities needed to assure autonomous systems. This contract is not associated with a larger contract vehicle or set-aside designation.