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Document Type:
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
NNH09ZEA001N-VVFCS1
Opportunity Category:
Other
Posted Date:
Nov 16, 2009
Creation Date:
Nov 16, 2009
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Dec 16, 2009
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Dec 16, 2009
Archive Date:
Jan 15, 2010
Funding Instrument Type:
Cooperative Agreement
Procurement Contract
Category of Funding Activity:
Recovery Act
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
10
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling:
Award Floor:
CFDA Number(s):
43.004
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Aeronautics, Recovery Act
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
No
Eligible Applicants
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Additional Information on Eligibility:
Agency Name
NASA Headquarters
Description
The goal of the Verification and Validation of Flight-Critical Systems (VVFCS) project
is to develop multidisciplinary verification and validation tools and techniques that
advance safety assurance and certification of complex, networked, distributed flight
critical systems. Here flight critical systems are defined to be any system that directly
controls the safe conduct of an aircraft’s flight. This includes air and ground systems,
concepts of operation as well as technology, and recognizes that human performance is a
key factor in flight-critical systems and must be accounted for.
The increasing complexity of flight critical systems proposed for the Next Generation Air
Transportation System (NextGen) will require new paradigms and real-time distributed
system infrastructures providing high levels of confidence and safety assurances. The
cost of proving a flight-critical system is safe is often expected to far surpass the costs for
other aspects of design and implementation.
