ROA 2009: B.6 Verification and Validation of Flight Critical Systems (VVFCS1) (Recovery Act)

Post Date

November 16th 2009

Application Due Date

December 16th 2009

Funding Opportunity Number

NNH09ZEA001N-VVFCS1

CFDA Number(s)

43.004

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Number of Awards

10

Eligibility Categories

Unrestricted

Funding

• Award Range:

  $None - $None

Grant 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.

Contact Information

• Agency

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Office:

  NASA Headquarters

• Agency Contact:

  Sharon Graves - VVFCS Project POC,
  Guillaume Brat - VVFCS Technical POC,
  Sherri Yokum - VVFCS NRA Manager

• Agency Mailing Address:

  NASA point of contact concerning this program:

• Agency Email Address:

  sharon.s.graves@nasa.gov

• More Information:

  Announcement Documents: