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NASA Announces California Aeronautics Research Awards

Posted on: Thursday, 23 April 2009, 14:44 CDT

WASHINGTON, April 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate recently awarded contracts to three California-based organizations to conduct research in support of the agency's mission.

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MITEK Analytics of Palo Alto, Calif., received $150,852 for work described in its NASA research announcement proposal "Systems Architecture for Integration of Vehicle Health Management Research." Dimitry Gorinevsky is the principal investigator.

Universities Space Research Association of Moffett Field, Calif., received $196,223 for work described in its NASA research announcement proposal "ISWHM: Tools and Techniques for Software and System Health Management." Johann Schumann is the principal investigator.

SRI International of Menlo Park, Calif., received $199,899 for work described in its NASA research announcement proposal "Formal Techniques and Tools for Software Health Management." Natarajan Shankar is the principal investigator.

Overseen by the directorate's Aviation Safety Program, the projects will foster close collaboration with and facilitate the exchange of ideas and information among researchers with NASA, industry, academia and other government agencies to benefit the nation's aeronautics community.

NASA's Aviation Safety Program is dedicated to improving the safety of current and future aircraft operating in the National Airspace System, with research focused on the way vehicles are designed, built, operated and maintained.

For more information about NASA research announcements, visit:

http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/nra.htm

For more information about NASA aeronautics programs, visit:

http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov

SOURCE NASA

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