Federal award (DELIVERY ORDER, fiscal year 2024)
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: 2013-08-08 to 2018-12-31
Current total value of award: $516630
Description: AIRCRAFT LOSS OF CONTROL (LOC) RESEARCH SUPPORT:  ACCIDENT ANALYSIS&TEST SCENARIOS DEVELOPMENT 2. PURPOSE, OBJECTIVE, AND BACKGROUND OF WORK TO BE PERFORMED: THE PURPOSE OF THIS TASK IS TO PROVIDE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT, TECHNICAL AND SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE, AND SUBJECT MATTER ENGINEERING CONSULTATION TO NASA'S VEHICLE SYSTEMS SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES (VSST) PROJECT TO CONDUCT RESEARCH THAT SUPPORTS RESEARCH ON AIRCRAFT LOSS OF CONTROL (LOC) PREVENTION AND RECOVERY.  THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PARTICIPATE IN LOC ACCIDENT ANALYSES, LOC TEST SCENARIOS DEVELOPMENT, EXPERIMENT DESIGN, PILOTED EVALUATIONS OF NASA TECHNOLOGIES, PUBLICATION AND DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH RESULTS, AND OPERATIONS CONSULTING (INCLUDING FLIGHT CREW AND AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL OPERATIONS).    3. DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK TO BE PERFORMED:  THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PERFORM THE FOLLOWING TASK REQUIREMENTS:  3.1. WORKING WITH THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD (NTSB) AND NASA, THE CONTRACTOR SHALL UPDATE AND REFINE A DATABASE OF AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS RELATED TO VEHICLE UPSETS AND LOSS OF CONTROL OVER A RECENT 15-YEAR TIME PERIOD.  THESE ACCIDENTS SHALL COMPRISE CIVIL ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS FROM AVAILABLE PUBLIC RECORDS AND SHALL INCLUDE CORPORATE AS WELL AS AIRLINE OPERATIONS.  3.2. UTILIZING THE DATABASE DEVELOPED UNDER TASK 3.1, THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PERFORM A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL ACCIDENT PRECURSORS TO LOC.  INDIVIDUAL PRECURSORS SHALL INCLUDE (BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO):  FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM AND COMPONENT FAILURES AND MALFUNCTIONS, ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES, CREW ERRORS, VEHICLE IMPAIRMENT AND UPSET CONDITIONS.     3.3. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PARTICIPATE IN AND/OR PROVIDE CONSULTATION FOR FURTHER ACCIDENT ANALYSES PERFORMED BY NASA TO IDENTIFY PRECURSOR COMBINATIONS AND SEQUENCES.    3.4. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL ASSIST NASA IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE SET OF LOC TEST SCENARIOS THAT CAN BE TRACED TO THE ACCIDENT SET AND ANALYSIS AND USED IN THE EVALUATION OF LOC PREVENTION AND RECOVERY TECHNOLOGIES BEING DEVELOPED BY NASA.  3.5. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE TECHNICAL EXPERTISE AND SUPPORT TO NASA IN THE DESIGN OF PILOTED SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS FOR LOC PREVENTION AND RECOVERY TECHNOLOGY EVALUATIONS.    3.6. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL DOCUMENT RESULTS OF SUBTASKS 3.4  3.5 AS SECTIONS WITHIN A JOINT CONFERENCE PAPER, JOURNAL ARTICLE, AND/OR NASA TM OR TP TO BE PUBLISHED BY NASA, NTSB, AND CONTRACTOR. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE:  FROM THE DATE OF TASK AWARD THROUGH OCTOBER 31, 2014.