AWARD
A -- RECOVERY - VEHICLE LEVEL REASONING SYSTEM AWARDED PURSUANT TO THE 2009 NATIONALAERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH ANNOUNCEMENT
- Notice Date
- 12/17/2009
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Langley Research Center, Mail Stop 144, Industry Assistance Office, Hampton,VA 23681-0001
- ZIP Code
- 23681-0001
- Solicitation Number
- NNH09ZEA0001N-IVHM
- Archive Date
- 12/1/2010
- Point of Contact
- Teresa M Hass, Contract Specialist/Contracting Officer, Phone 757-864-8496, Fax 757-864-7709, Email Teresa.M.Hass@nasa.gov - Susan E. McClain, Contracting Officer, Phone 757-864-8687, Fax 757-864-8863, Email Susan.E.Mcclain@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Teresa M Hass
(Teresa.M.Hass@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- NNL10AA04T
- Award Date
- 12/17/2009
- Awardee
- The Boeing Company JS McDonnell Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63166-1939
- Award Amount
- 596245
- Description
- Recovery Act - This competitive action awarded pursuant to the 2009 NationalAeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Research Announcement is partially fundedthrough the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This award will develop a Vehicle Level Reasoning System (VLRS) that will look across allof the vehicle subsystems (propulsion, flight systems, airframe, and software) forpurposes of determining whether an adverse event has occurred, diagnose the cause,predict the effect on the remaining useful life of the vehicle, and take appropriatesteps to mitigate the event as appropriate. The VLRS may take advantage of component,subsystem, and vehicle level models which would represent connectivity and potentialcausal chains of failure. Similarly, physics-based models of damage propagation forcertain subsystems (such as the airframe or actuators) may be appropriate for inclusionin the VLRS. VLRS technologies will produce a significant amount of data that can beused to enable conditioned-based maintenance (CBM) for aircraft. With CBM, maintenanceactions are performed only when there is an anticipated need, as opposed to regularlyscheduled maintenance actions.In order to anticipate the need for maintenance, a CBMsystem will use information and data derived from onboard sensors and supportinginstrumentation (such as those under development in NASA's IVHM project) as well asmaintenance logs for the vehicle. The ARRA funded effort includes the design, implementation, and demonstration of aflexible VLRS that is adaptable to legacy and Next-Generation (NextGen) civil andmilitary air-vehicle platforms, including business case and architectural trade studiesto support selection of platform and subsystem demonstration targets, delivery of ahybrid real-time and near real-time VLRS approach providing an integrative approach topropagating, correlating, and assessing the effects of subsystem failures for continuousand discrete data, and a capability to assess and report the effect of lower level systemfailures on vehicle functional goals. The Base Period ARRA funded portion is $596,245.This effort has the potential for two 12-month Non-ARRA funded Option Periods totaling$1,490,150. The total award amount, including ARRA and non-ARRA funding, is $2,086,395. NASA's Aviation Safety Program is conducting research directed at improving the safety ofcurrent and future aircraft operating in the National Airspace System. The research focusis on the way vehicles are designed, built, operated, and maintained, and is organizedinto four project areas: 1) Integrated Vehicle Health Management, 2) IntegratedIntelligent Flight Deck, 3) Integrated Resilient Aircraft Control, and 4) Aircraft Agingand Durability. This award specifically addresses the Integrated Vehicle HealthManagement (IVHM) project which is conducting research into vehicle health managementtechnologies that will detect, diagnose, predict, and mitigate adverse events that occurduring flight.Adverse events include those that arise from system, subsystem, orcomponent faults or failures due to damage, degradation, or environmental hazards (suchas turbulence, electromagnetic fields, and lightning). This notice is provided for informational purposes only. A cost plus fixed fee contractwas determined to be most appropriate for this procurement because of the uncertainnature of the research activities required cannot be estimated to the level of accuracynecessary to allow the use of a fixed-priced contractual vehicle.
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