NASA/Langley Research Center, Mail Stop 144, Industry Assistance Office, Hampton, VA 23681-0001

A -- FLIGHT CRITICAL SYSTEMS INTEGRITY AND SAFETY SOL NA DUE 120597 POC Linda P. Fitzgerald, Procurement Analyst, Phone (757)-864-2461, Fax (757) 864-7898, Email L.P.FITZGERALD@larc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/LaRC/date.html#NA. E-MAIL: Linda P. Fitzgerald, L.P.FITZGERALD@larc.nasa.gov. NASA/LaRC is hereby soliciting information for potential sources for Flight Critical Systems Integrity and Safety. The contract is for research and development to meet specific objectives in three critical areas that will provide the enabling technologies to reduce the aircraft accident rate by a factor of five within 10 years and factor of 10 within 20 years. 1. Aircraft Control in Adverse Conditions: Investigate methods for the combined and simultaneous assessment of dependability and performance that quantifies the system s ability to perform to specification in the presence of faults; Develop databases from analytical, simulation, and flight investigations on flight critical systems performance in failure/damage situations. Such databases will provide the basis for new system designs and for new assessment techniques and tools; Identify, develop, compare, and validate fault identification, and system reconfiguration (both hardware and software) techniques. 2. Flight Critical Systems Design, Verification, and Certification Methods: Develop methods that will enable the evaluation and demonstration of required levels of reliability, availability, performability, integrity, and safety for flight critical/essential systems; Develop design paradigms that increase the certifiability of electronic and computing systems for flight critical functions; Investigate and develop methods and technologies to assure information integrity and security in the presence of malicious and environmental threats. 3. Health Monitoring and Diagnostic Systems: Investigate the integration and validation of existing and future sensing/processing technologies to better aid in airframe-wide health monitoring; Develop concepts, methods, and technologies for distributed, smart systems and onboard diagnostic system architectures; Validate new health monitoring and diagnostic system concepts in the context of catastrophic failure prevention and decreased maintenance costs. No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. Firms having the specialized capabilities necessary to meet or exceed the stated requirements are invited to submit appropriate documentation, literature, brochures, and references. Responses shall be limited to a maximum of 5 pages, and should be submitted to NASA, Langley Research Center, Industry Assistance Office, Attn: Linda P. Fitzgerald, Mail Stop 144, Hampton, VA 23681-0001, or by e-mail to .p.fitzgerald@larc.nasa.gov. Responses must include the following: (1) name and address of firm, (b) size of business: average annual revenue for past 3 years and number of employees, (c) ownership: Large, Small, Small Disadvantaged, 8(a), and/or Woman-Owned, (d) number of years in business, (e) two points of contact: name, title, phone, fax, and e-mail, (f) DUNS Number (if available), (g) affiliate information: parent company, joint venture partners, potential teaming partners, prime contractor (if potential sub) or subcontractors (if potential prime), (h) a list of customers covering the past 5 years: highlight relevant work including a summary of work performed, contract number, contract type, dollar value for each customer reference and customer point of contact with phone number. Technical questions should be directed to Bob Wills at (757) 864-1710. Please advise if the requirement is considered to be a commercial or commercial-type product. A commercial item is defined in "Note A". This synopsis is for information and planning purposes and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government nor will the Government pay for any information solicited. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. Respondents deemed fully qualified will be considered in any resulting solicitation for the requirement. It is anticipated that a draft solicitation will be issued to industry for comments. The Government reserves the right to consider a small business set-aside or 8(a) set-aside based on responses hereto. The SIC code for this procurement is 8731 and the small business size standard is 1500 employees. Closing date for responses is 14 days from the date of publication of this announcement. In responding reference SS275. Any referenced numbered notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nnotes.htm. (0324)

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