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Potential customers for this innovation include: - Government, industry, and academia researchers exploring new concepts for the NAS, advanced safety assurance methods, and applications of autonomy. - FAA offices, industry, and operators involved in development, approval, and certification of new concepts or procedures. - Airlines researching new methods for managing their own traffic flow within the NAS.","description":"Crown Consulting, Inc. will investigate and demonstrate methods to enable rapid selection of days for scenario generation in the development and evaluation of Air Traffic Management concepts and technologies (C&T) in the Shadow Mode Assessment using Realistic Technologies for the National Airspace System (SMART-NAS) Test-bed (SNTB). The proposed capability will enable the rapid generation of highly operationally relevant scenarios for use in the development and evaluation of technology demonstrators such as NASA Airspace Technology Demonstrator, ATD-2 and ATD-3, Unmanned Aerial System Traffic Management, as well as new operational concepts such as Integrated Demand Management and Trajectory Based Operations. A significant motivation for the development of the SNTB is enabling C&T benefit, impact, safety and cost assessments for speeding up deployment in the NAS. Today, C&T introduction into the NAS takes decades. The primary reason for this is an inability to assess the operational impact of the interaction between the proposed C&T and operationally deployed systems in terms of NAS-wide safety, traffic flow efficiency, roles and workload of controllers and traffic managers, and impact on airline operations. Human-In-The-Loop testing and shadow-mode evaluation driven by operational data. Slow and incremental steps are typically taken towards deployment because of limitations in the development of mathematical modeling and simulation. The proposed innovation seeks to augment the scenario generation capability of NASA's SNTB with methods and tools for selecting traffic, winds and weather based on the needs of the experiment allowing for highly operationally relevant scenarios. These methods and tools would actively categorize incoming and historical data using advanced machine-learning algorithms, allowing fast access to NAS streaming and legacy data in a big-data warehouse through queries generated via a simple user interface for specifying desired characteristics.","startYear":2017,"startMonth":6,"endYear":2017,"endMonth":12,"statusDescription":"Completed","principalInvestigators":[{"contactId":462736,"canUserEdit":false,"firstName":"Thomas","lastName":"Davis","fullName":"Thomas J Davis","fullNameInverted":"Davis, Thomas J","middleInitial":"J","primaryEmail":"tdbearcat@gmail.com","publicEmail":true,"nacontact":false},{"contactId":3251203,"canUserEdit":false,"firstName":"Tom","lastName":"Davis","fullName":"Tom Davis","fullNameInverted":"Davis, Tom","primaryEmail":"tdavis@crownci.com","publicEmail":true,"nacontact":false}],"programDirectors":[{"contactId":206378,"canUserEdit":false,"firstName":"Jason","lastName":"Kessler","fullName":"Jason L 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This will directly lead to better scenario generation for development, integration, benefit assessment and operational feasibility evaluation via HITL simulations of near term ATM technology, such as the: * Airspace Technology Demonstrators(ATDs): Integrated Arrival/Departure/Surface (IADS), Metroplex Traffic Management (ATD-2) and Applied Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) (ATD-3), * Integrated Demand Management * UTM, UAS in the NAS, Urban Air Mobility This will allow Crown to easily provide advanced software components that will directly assist and enhance these ATM research projects. In addition, this software can be applied to other NASA Big Data systems for providing the same capabilities for space and autonomy research.
Potential customers for this innovation include: * Government, industry, and academia researchers exploring new operational concepts for the NAS. * FAA offices involved in development, verification, validation and approval of new concepts or procedures. * Flight operators involved in the development, verification and validation, and implementation of Airline Operation Center (AOC) based tools to support new or existing operational concepts. * Industry, including suppliers of decision support tools and software for the FAA and flight operators, involved in the development, verification and validation, and implementation of decision support tools and software to support new or existing operational concepts. * Other government agencies and industries with the need to extract specific types of data from large, diverse datasets based on complex combinations of the raw data, but using well defined queries.","description":"Crown Consulting, Inc. (CCI) will investigate and demonstrate methods to enable rapid selection of days for scenario generation in the development and evaluation of Air Traffic Management (ATM) concepts and technologies (C&T) in the NASA developed Shadow Mode Assessment using Realistic Technologies for the National Airspace System (SMART-NAS) Testbed (SNTB). The proposed capability will enable the rapid generation of highly operationally relevant scenarios for use in the development and evaluation of technology demonstrators such as the NASA Airspace Technology Demonstrator (ATD)-2 and ATD-3, as well as future ATM concepts such as Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM), and Air Traffic Management Exploration (ATM-X). The latter includes new mid-term operational concepts such as Integrated Demand Management (IDM), and far-term operational concepts such as Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and Increasingly Diverse Operations (IDO), which considers the integration of supersonic aircraft, spacecraft and UAS into the National Airspace System (NAS) The proposed innovation seeks to augment the scenario generation capability of NASA’s SNTB with methods and tools for selecting traffic, winds and weather based on the needs of the experiment allowing for highly operationally relevant scenarios. These methods and tools would actively categorize incoming and historical data using advanced machine-learning algorithms, allowing fast access to NAS streaming and legacy data in a big-data warehouse such as the NASA’s ATM-Data-Warehouse through queries generated via a simple user interface for specifying desired characteristics. In addition to historical data, processed data such as benefit metrics, generated by SNTB simulations implementing the concept and technology of interest, can also be categorized by machine-learning algorithms for selecting days to generate scenarios for HITL tests to verify conditions for most or least C&T benefit.","startYear":2018,"startMonth":6,"endYear":2021,"endMonth":6,"statusDescription":"Completed","website":"","program":{"acronym":"SBIR/STTR","active":true,"description":"
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The SBIR and STTR programs have 3 phases:
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Opportunity for Continued Technology Development Post-Phase II:
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Please review the links below to obtain more information on the SBIR/STTR programs.
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Provides access to the annual SBIR/STTR Solicitations containing detailed information on the program eligibility requirements, proposal instructions and research topics and subtopics
Schedule and links for the SBIR/STTR solicitations and selection announcements
Federal and non-Federal sources of assistance for small business
Search our complete archive of awarded project abstracts to learn about what NASA has funded
Still have questions? Visit the program FAQs
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Please review the links below to obtain more information on the SBIR/STTR programs.
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Provides access to the annual SBIR/STTR Solicitations containing detailed information on the program eligibility requirements, proposal instructions and research topics and subtopics
Schedule and links for the SBIR/STTR solicitations and selection announcements
Federal and non-Federal sources of assistance for small business
Search our complete archive of awarded project abstracts to learn about what NASA has funded
Still have questions? Visit the program FAQs
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