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A -- RESEARCH IN SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING DATABASES FOR AEROSPACE DESIGN SYSTEMS SOL NRA2-36834-TLL DUE 123097 POC Tyndal L. Lindler, Contract Specialist, Phone (650) 604-1737, Fax (650) 604-4377, Email tlindler@mail.arc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/ARC/date.html#NRA2-36834-TLL. E-MAIL: Tyndal L. Lindler, tlindler@mail.arc.nasa.gov. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Ames Research Center, Numerical Aerospace Simulation (NAS) Systems Division, intends to solicit proposals under NASA Research Announcement (NRA), entitled Research in Scientific and Engineering Databases for Aerospace Design Systems. Proposals are solicited for research into various aspects of scientific databases and scientific data management to support the program objectives of the NAS Systems Division at the Ames Research Center. The intent is to foster mutually beneficial technology transfer that advances the management of large scientific data sets from Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and related aerosciences, and large collections of such data sets. Current research interests include topics such as scientific databases, tools for scientific metadata, metadata (schema) evolution, alternative database technologies to support scientific data, systems and memory hierarchy support for analysis of extremely large (100 GB) data sets, and tools for integrating data from multiple disciplines. The NRA will be available electronically under Business Opportunities at URL:http://Procure.arc.nasa.gov/ The expected release date of NRA2-36834(TLL) is September 30, 1997. Proposals may be submitted throughout the period ending December 30, 1997. Specific guidance for proposal preparation will be in the NRA. Single awards will be considered for up to $100,000 per year with access to computational resources as required. Proposals may contain research plans for up to three years for potential future renewals. Projected program funding is expected to support up to five projects per year. Technical questions should be addressed to Dr. Arsi Vaziri, email: vaziri@nas.nasa.gov, Telephone:(650) 604-4523. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the Agency. (0259)

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