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System Wide Analysis Network for In-Time Safety Monitoring

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NASA-SBIR-154792SBIR / STTR

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The System Wide Analysis Network for In-Time Safety Monitoring (SWANS) is a NASA SBIR/STTR program solicitation, identified as NASA-SBIR-154792, designed to provide continuous, up-to-the-minute measurement of hazards and risk events within terminal areas of the National Airspace System (NAS). The system updates every five minutes to offer timely insights into safety margin trends and detect increases in risk events, which helps identify procedural deficiencies and airspace risk status. This infrastructure supports the Domain-Specific Safety Monitoring and Alerting milestone and provides monitoring across medium, short-term, and near real-time intervals. The tool is intended for use by airlines, operators, and FAA safety managers to assist in safety analysis, flight planning, operations monitoring, and the identification of safety hot spots. Under the Phase II-E scope of work, the project aims to extend SWANS capabilities by detecting air-ground safety events, utilizing speech-to-text natural language processing to identify errors in controller-pilot audio communications, and integrating controller workload proxies. Key deliverables include an expanded set of hazard and risk metrics, models to quantify risk dependencies, a comprehensive database of operational data using NASA data sets, and a final report with validation results and a user guide. This total small business set-aside effort is managed by the NASA SBIR/STTR Program with performance associated with Robust Analytics and locations in Moffett Field, California, and Crofton, Maryland.

General Info

NASA SBIR program for real-time airspace safety monitoring and air-ground risk event detection.

Agency

National Aeronautics and Space Administration → NASA SBIR/STTR Program

NAICS

541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)

Place of Performance

Moffett Field, CA, 94035, USA

Set-Aside

SBA

Documents

A3.03-2216 SWANS Overview Briefing Chart

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Timeline

PhaseSolicitation

PostedNov 22

Solicitation

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Organization & Contact Information

AgencyNational Aeronautics and Space Administration → NASA SBIR/STTR Program

Contacts5 people available

OfficeUSA

Organization / AgencyNational Aeronautics and Space Administration → NASA SBIR/STTR Program

Office AddressUSA

Contacts

Peter F KostiukPrimary Point of Contact

Misty D DaviesProject Manager

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Peter F KostiukPrincipal Investigator

Jason L KesslerProgram Director

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Carlos TorrezProgram Manager

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Interested Companies (1)

Robust AnalyticsCrofton, MD

Full Description

The System Wide Analysis Network for Safety (SWANS) will deliver up-to-the-minute measurement of hazards and risk events in terminal areas throughout the NAS. Updated with current data every five minutes, SWANS provides timely insight into safety margin trends and detects increases in risk events. These events may indicate changes in airspace risk status and identify possible procedural and other deficiencies. SWANS offers a data processing, distribution, and display infrastructure for adding a wide array of data sources and algorithms to track hazards and measure and predict risk. SWANS contributes directly to the Thrust 5 milestone for Domain-Specific Safety Monitoring and Alerting. SWANS offers near-term benefits to diverse users by delivering in-time monitoring of risk metrics with alerts for emerging trends. SWANS monitors the NAS for medium (days before), short term (hours before), and near real time (minutes before) trends. The SWANS monitoring tool can be delivered directly to airlines and operators for timely use in safety analysis, flight planning, operations monitoring decision making, and flight crew/dispatcher training. FAA safety managers can use SWANS to identify hot spots and detect evolving safety trends. SWANS will provide real-time answers to important questions that a robust safety monitoring system should ask: What are the current status of hazard and risk events? How do those conditions compare to normal conditions? Has the number of hazards and risk events increased over the past 15 minutes? 30 minutes? Seven days? Are hazards and risk events becoming more or less frequent? Over what time periods? What are the current and recent hot spots around the NAS? By delivering timely answers to these and many other questions, SWANS meets an important FAA and industry requirement for improved tracking of risk events, and contributes to meeting the NASA technical milestone to monitor and assess terminal area safety.
Benefits: SWANS contributes to meeting the System Wide Safety Project milestone to monitor and assess terminal area safety margins. Immediate benefits come from assisting NASA’s support of airline efforts to recovery safely from the pandemic. SWANS offers the In-Time Aviation Safety Management System a near-term safety monitoring and assessment system for traditional operations and an extensible infrastructure for integrating non-traditional operations as they enter the NAS. The FAA has a requirement for a system that tracks many risk events and provides timely alerts when risky events become more frequent. SWANS offers a solution to that FAA requirement. The SWANS monitoring tool can be delivered directly to airlines and operators for timely use in safety analysis, flight planning, operations monitoring decision making, and flight crew/dispatcher training.