This is a $91,181 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of NASA to The Space Research Company LLC, a woman-owned small business. The contract is for the development of a framework to quantify and predict crew performance in various spacecraft designs. The framework utilizes an elemental resource breakdown approach to relate the crew, the spacecraft design, and operations, integrating existing physiological, cognitive, and psychological metrics. This...
This $4,088,467.35 award to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as the Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania, is a grant for research focused on optimizing human performance, adaptability, and resiliency for long-duration space exploration missions. The research leverages the NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) framework to identify biological and behavioral factors that predict astronaut performance and well-being in simulated spaceflight conditions....
This is a firm fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Charles River Analytics, Inc., an employee-owned small business located in Watertown, Massachusetts. The contract, valued at $124,920, is to design and demonstrate a system for cognitive assessment and prediction to promote individualized capability augmentation and reduce performance decrement in astronauts during long-duration spaceflight missions. The proposed system, called CAPT PICARD,...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center awarded a $1,013,964 grant to The Space Research Company LLC, a minority-owned, woman-owned small business, for research to develop a conceptual framework and validation path for measuring task performance quality between crewmembers and robotic systems in space exploration. The work seeks to address the lack of comprehensive standards for evaluating task design and dynamic interaction between humans and autonomous...
This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Anacapa Sciences, Inc., a for-profit organization, to conduct research on the skills and knowledge required for successful crew performance in exploration missions. The $105,225.23 grant-funded project aims to identify the physical, cognitive, and social abilities necessary for different crew specialties, and to recommend optimal training strategies. The research will provide a comprehensive inventory of...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by NASA to Charles River Analytics, Inc., a small business located in Watertown, Massachusetts. The contract, valued at $749,977, is for the development of a system called "CAPT PICARD" that can assess astronaut cognitive workload in real-time. This system is intended to help NASA manage the cognitive demands experienced by astronauts during long periods of low workload followed by sudden high-tempo...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $115,345 grant to Teamscape LLC, a woman-owned small business located in Piedmont, California. The grant is for a research project titled "Negotiating Crew Autonomy During Space Operations." The goal of the research is to examine factors that enable effective collaboration between space crews and ground personnel, supporting NASA's efforts to enable more independent operations by spacecraft crews. Teamscape has...
This is a $76,291.86 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, a non-profit research organization affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology. The grant is part of NASA's "Shared Cognitive Architectures for Long-Term Exploration" (SCALE) program, which focuses on maintaining team shared mental models during long-duration space exploration missions. The research team will leverage expertise in...
This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee federal contract award with a ceiling value of $9,649,996.00 for "Aerospace Physiology Research" awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to DCS Corporation (doing business as Infoscitex Corp). The contract does not have a set-aside designation. The contract includes several subcontractors, such as The Ohio State University, the Regents of the University of Michigan, and Elbit Systems LTD, who are supporting various aspects of the research...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $2,316,596.33 cooperative agreement to the University of Pennsylvania to develop a standardized suite of behavioral health measurement tools for use in spaceflight research and ground-based analogs. The goal is to rapidly and reliably assess the risk of adverse behavioral conditions and psychiatric outcomes for exploration-class missions to Mars and other long-duration, isolated environments. The tools will be integrated on an...