SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- ENHANCED RESOLUTION FLASH LIDAR FOR HAZARD DETECTION
- Notice Date
- 1/10/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334511
— Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston Texas, 77058-3696, Mail Code: BH
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- NNJ14ZBH011L
- Response Due
- 4/11/2014
- Archive Date
- 1/10/2015
- Point of Contact
- Mark A. Dillard, Lead Partnership Development Office Integration, Phone 281-244-8460, Fax 281-483-4146, Email mark.a.dillard@nasa.gov - Dana Altmon-Cary, Contracting Officer, Phone 281-483-8228, Fax 281-483-4066, Email dana.altmon-cary-1@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Mark A. Dillard
(mark.a.dillard@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center (JSC) is seeking parties interested in collaborative development and mature technologies required for NASAs future missions and to enhance life on Earth. JSC is looking to partner on the development of broadly applicable technologies as a means to accelerate technology development and strengthen commercialization of federally-funded research and development. Purpose: NASA JSC is seeking parties interested in co-developing technology associated with the Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology (ALHAT). The ALHAT Project addresses the development, integration, and testing of an advanced 3-D flash LIDAR camera with a detector array of 256x256 pixels or larger. The primary functional objectives for the advanced flash LIDAR camera are improvements in range accuracy, dynamic range, sensitivity, and overall noise characteristics. The primary design objectives are a larger detector array combined with reductions in size, mass, and power. The ALHAT technology can be updated and modified to address any earth-bound navigation challenges that requires real-time terrain mapping under any lighting conditions, and highly accurate ground relative range and velocity measurements to support precision navigation. Technology: The ALHAT Project has developed and tested sensor packages that have validated the utility of active LIDAR sensors for real-time hazard detection and precision landing. The ALHAT Project utilizes a 3-D flash LIDAR camera for real-time terrain mapping under any lighting conditions, and has also developed and tested advanced laser altimeter and Doppler LIDAR sensors that provide highly accurate ground relative range and velocity measurements to support precision landing. Enhancements desired include detecting variations in surface roughness of 30cm and local slopes of 5 degrees at operational ranges of 1000 meters or greater. NASA JSC seeks to advance the state-of-the-art in sensors and techniques for planetary landing systems. R&D Status: Upcoming autonomous, closed-loop flights of the current ALHAT system on the Morpheus 1.5B rocket-powered test bed at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) will mature the existing sensors. Intellectual Property (IP): Cooperative Relative Navigation of Spacecraft at Close Range using Flash LIDARs Flash LIDAR Cooperative Pose Software LIDAR Electro-optic beam switch with a Liquid Crystal Variable Retarder (T-00124) A Technique for Finding Retro-Reflectors in Flash LIDAR Imagery Detailed information for the above mentioned technologies furnished upon request. This co-development project may produce new IP that could be jointly owned by NASA and the partner or may become the property of the partner. This announcement is not to be construed as a Request for Proposal and is not a commitment by the government, nor will the government pay for any information provided. Since this is an Announcement, no evaluation letters or results will be issued to the respondents. Contact Information: Please submit the attached Statement of Interest Form to Mark Dillard To view all Co-Development and Partnering Opportunities with the NASA Johnson Space Center please visit our website at http://1.usa.gov/1bL99AF
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