SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- VISION BASED NAVIGATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
- 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
- NNJ14ZBH010L
- 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
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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 seeks parties interested in co-developing technology associated with Vision-Based Navigation (VBN) systems. VBN systems are a mainstay in the space industry and the technology developed can be applied to many terrestrial applications. Advancing this technology for other applications can be of mutual benefit as a dual-use technology to many industries, as noted above. Technology: NASA has used Vision Based Navigation (VBN) extensively in many of its programs. For example, cislunar applications involve determining the inertial position and velocity of the vehicle given a set of camera images of the planetary/lunar surface for targeting insertion or entry interface conditions. Additional application of VBN in the cislunar environment involves providing vehicle state information based on surface imagery identifying known landmarks (e.g. craters and mountainous topography). Vehicle relative navigation involves the use of natural feature image recognition, stereo photo clinometry, or visual odometry techniques to provide navigational information relative to a cooperative/uncooperative target vehicle for rendezvous and proximity operations. R&D Status: Extensive technology exists for Vision-Based Navigation (VBN) systems for both space and terrestrial use. Examples include VBN systems for autonomous aircraft refueling, autonomous robotic vehicle navigation and unmanned aerial vehicle navigation. Intellectual Property (IP): Laser Camera System/Space Vision System Stitched Camera Array for Clearance Monitoring 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. 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 http://1.usa.gov/1bL99AF
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