Federal award (DELIVERY ORDER, fiscal year 2022)
Recipient: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE ASSOCIATES
Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Funding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Period of performance: 2013-08-13 to 2018-03-31
Current total value of award: $479522
Description: ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH 2. PURPOSE, OBJECTIVE, AND BACKGROUND OF WORK TO BE PERFORMED:THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE RESEARCH FOR ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS.  THIS RESEARCH SHALL INVESTIGATE ADVANCED SOLVER AND MATRIX COMPRESSION TECHNOLOGY TO INCREASE PROBLEM SIZE AND REDUCE COMPUTATIONAL HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS TO HANDLE EXTREMELY LARGE PROBLEM SIZE.  THE CONTRACTOR SHALL IMPLEMENT THESE TECHNIQUES INTO THE EXISTING MERCURY METHOD OF MOMENTS (MOM) CODE TO WHICH THE GOVERNMENT HAS RESTRICTED RIGHTS. THIS TASK CONTINUES THE CODE DEVELOPMENT WORK STARTED UNDER THE RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE CONTRACT NAS1-02057, TASK ORDER NNL06AA28T AND CONDUCTED UNDER IDIQ CONTRACT NNL08AA00B TASK ORDERS NNL08AB84T AND NNL12AA44T. THE INITIAL ORIGINAL CODE, MERCURY MOM, AS DESCRIBED IN PATENT NOS.: 7,742,886 B2 AND 7,844,407 B1 WERE DEVELOPED AND PATENTED AT PRIVATE EXPENSE.  3. DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK TO BE PERFORMED:  3.1  THE CONTRACTOR SHALL RESEARCH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PARALLEL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES IN CONJUNCTION WITH ADAPTIVE CROSS APPROXIMATION (ACA) TO IMPROVE THE SPEED AND EFFICIENCY OF THE MERCURY MOM CODE.   3.2  THE CONTRACTOR SHALL RESEARCH ALTERNATE SOLUTION METHODOLOGIES FOR INVERTING THE COMPRESSED SOLUTION MATRIX.   3.3  THE CONTRACTOR SHALL INVESTIGATE THE USE OF HIGHER ORDER OR ALTERNATE BASIS FUNCTIONS TO REDUCE PROBLEM UNKNOWNS AND DECREASE SOLUTION TIMES. 3.4  THE CONTRACTOR SHALL SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRE- AND POST-PROCESSING TOOL CALLED MERCURY MOM VISUALIZATION (MMVIZ) TO PROVIDE THE USER INTERFACE AND POST PROCESSING CAPABILITY FOR MERCURY MOM. 3.5  THE CONTRACTOR SHALL MAKE ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS TO THE CODES SUCH AS PLANES OF SYMMETRY AND ANTENNA CAPABILITIES.