RECOVERY THIS NOTICE IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THISOPPORTUNITY IS AVAILABLE ONLY TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AUTHORIZED UNDER THEAMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009. THE WORK IS SPONSORED BY THE AERONAUTICSRESEARCH MISSION DIRECTORATE (ARMD) AIRSPACE SYSTEMS PROGRAM UNDER THE UNIVERSITYAFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTER (UARC) CONTRACT NAS2-03144 WITH THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITYOF CALIFORNIA.NASA/Ames Research Center (ARC) intends to issue Task Order 093-R entitled, EnhanceAircraft Performance Models to the University of California under UARC contractNAS2-03144. Research will address the capacity challenges facing the US National Airspace System(NAS). It is forecast that over the next 15 years, air traffic in the United States willdouble, far exceeding the countrys current capability to safely fly aircraft. To handlethis growth, NASA is contributing toward the development of the Next Generation AirTransportation System (NextGen). This includes developing enhancements to existing airtraffic decision support tools like NASAs Center TRACON Automation System or CTAS.In support of this, the contractor shall develop, test and analyze a prototype version ofCTAS that has the ability to utilize an aircraft database model which may provide greaterfidelity than the existing aircraft database model. With government approval, thecontractor shall implement elements of the model that improve overall CTAS performance.This task requires the design and implementation of an interface to the BADA aircraftperformance model database within the CTAS Trajectory Synthesizer (TS). The interfacewould consist not only of the actual data but also the equations of motion. The software shall be validated to ensure the correct data is being extracted from thedatabase. The resultant trajectories shall be compared to those generated by the currentaircraft performance model. Both sets shall be compared to the track recordings ofactual flown trajectories (provided by the government). Where the experimental analysisrecommends improvement in trajectory calculation performance, these improved capabilitiesshall be incorporated into the CTAS software baseline.The contractor is required to provide two builds of CTAS software. The first build (BADAprototype) shall be used to conduct the laboratory experiment comparing the accuracy oftrajectories generated by the in-house and BADA model databases. The second build isrequired to incorporate approved BADA models into the CTAS baseline.Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice.This announcement will not result in a Request for Proposal; this announcement is forinformational purposes only. Questions and/or concerns may be submitted in writing, viae-mail, to the following government point of contact.
[email protected] Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA specific note B.Information about major upcoming ARC procurement actions is available at:http://ec.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eis/admin/admin.cgi?center=ARC