NASA ROA-2015 Amendment 7: Safe Autonomous Systems Operations Project (SASO1)

Amendment 7 to the NASA ARMD Research Opportunities in Aeronautics (ROA) 2015 NRA has been posted on the NSPIRES web site at http://nspires.nasaprs.com.

This release includes the following 9 subtopics in Appendix B.4 for foundational research in support of the Safe Autonomous Systems Operations Project:

– (2.1) System Study to Identify Opportunities for increasingly Autonomous Operations with Emphasis in Traffic Flow Management and Closely-spaced Parallel Runway Operations;

– (2.2) System study to identify ab initio architecture(s) to meet the needs of future airspace operations (targeted for 2035 and beyond);

– (2.3) Safety Assurance for Increasingly Autonomous (IA) Systems;

– (2.4) Advanced universal, reliable, always available, cyber secure and affordable Communication,  Navigation, Surveillance (CNS) Options for all altitudes of UAS operations;

– (2.5) Human-autonomy teaming;

– (2.6) Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) Trajectory Modeling Approaches;

– (2.7) Identification of UAV Situational Awareness Issues and Intervention Procedures for Off Nominal Events;

– (2.8) Interactivity and Mobility Decision Modeling; and

– (2.9) Concept and Technologies to Support Reduced Crew Operations for Commercial Carriers.

NOIs are due June 29, 2015 and proposals are due August 3, 2015.