Rannoch, Boeing, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, ARINC, Receive NASA Flight Critical Systems Contracts

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Alexandria, VA – December 20, 2005 – Rannoch is pleased to announce that it has been selected for a major NASA Aeronautics research contract. The Flight Critical Systems Research contract is organized to provide specialized engineering in four major areas:

 

  • Flight dynamics, guidance, and control, including guidance and control technologies for operation throughout an aircraft’s flight envelope to prevent loss of control, and recover from loss-of-control conditions.

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  • Crew systems and aviation operations for integrated flight deck systems; aircraft self separation and distributed air traffic management; atmospheric hazard awareness and avoidance; situation awareness assessment; synthetic vision; and human-centered design. Research areas include aviation safety and airspace capacity issues such as controlled flight into terrain, loss of control in flight, runway incursions, and high density air traffic operations.

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  • Reliable and robust avionics systems, including development of methods, techniques, and tools for the design, verification, integration, validation, and certification of complex and highly integrated mission and life critical systems.

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  • Flight critical systems analysis and integration,including requirements analysis; complex system functional decomposition; experimental system design; system verification and validation; cost benefit studies; modeling and simulation; configuration management; systems integration; and systems assurance.

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    The NASA Langley Research Center $35M, five-year contract establishes a limited task-order competition environment for five selected companies; Rannoch, Boeing Phantom Works, Honeywell Corporation, ARINC Engineering Services, and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company.

    “We are delighted to be in the company of several of America’s leading aerospace companies to be selected for this very important NASA Aeronautics program,” said Rick Cassell, Rannoch’s program manager. Rannoch has been working with NASA Langley for the past ten years under several programs related to aircraft safety and air traffic operations. This has included support for Synthetic Vision Systems (SVS) research and Small Aircraft Transportation Systems (SATS). Rannoch also developed its PathProx® runway incursion alerting system in cooperation with NASA. Rannoch has won three NASA Turning Goals into Reality (TGIR) awards for projects sponsored by NASA Langley, two for work related to PathProx® and one for SATS.

    Rannoch’s Flight Critical Systems Research team includes a mix of highly capable organizations including several larger aviation companies, specialized smaller companies, and universities, including Rockwell Collins, Raytheon Company, SRI International, Barron Associates, Mulkerin Associates, Strategic Aeronautics, Computer Networks and Software, AeroTech Research, ViGYAN, Cambridge Communications, Sanchez Industrial Design, the Rich Group, University of Iowa, Ohio University, Old Dominion University (ODU), and Averett University.