S&K Global Solutions was recently awarded two (2) Small Business Innovation 研究 (SBIR) Phase 1 contracts by NASA.  的 company is one of five 蒙大拿 businesses to receive awards.

的 NASA SBIR计划 基金研究, 发展, and innovative technologies that fulfill NASA needs, and to a broader extent, non-NASA commercial opportunities.  要符合资格, the small business must have 500 or fewer employees or be a non-profit research institution with ties to a small business.

Under the first SBIR, S&K Global Solutions will design a software tool called the Autonomy Requirements Tester which will assist engineers at NASA in managing and communicating autonomy requirements for flight and robotic systems.  的 application will assist with the 发展 of robots (especially those interacting with humans) and the 发展 of autonomous spacecraft systems for both unmanned spacecraft and those supporting small crews. (Read more about this project)

For the second SBIR, S&K Global Solutions will design a Fault Management (FM) Viewer software tool which will provide new ways of visualizing FM concepts and data.  As pressures increase for spacecraft autonomy, they will also increase for additional FM.  This type of software offers the ability to include better FM while spending 发展 and testing resources more cost efficiently.  Potential customers include future robot systems like Valkyrie and Robonaut 2, rovers like Lunar Prospector, and autonomous spacecraft like the Solar Probe Plus. (Read more about this project)

“S&K is proud to continue supporting the 发展 of advanced software for autonomous spacecraft and for robots that interact with both people and spacecraft,” said Mike Monahan, VP of Business Development.  “And the best part is, we have partnered with Salish Kootenai College (SKC), with corresponding curricula and faculty expertise, for autonomous software research and 发展.”

S&K Global Solutions is based in Polson, 蒙大拿, and has been providing support services at NASA since 1997 for Intelligent Robotic Control Systems and 工程 Integration.  的 company is owned by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and is part of the S&K技术, Inc. family of companies.  Along with meeting challenges at NASA, they have multiple logistics and information technology contracts with the Department of Defense, Centers for Disease Control, Federal Aviation Administration, 和更多的.

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Artists rendition of the Solar Probe Plus which is designed to fly into the sun’s atmosphere.  A software product being developed by S&K Global Solutions, may provide fault management data for systems like the Solar Probe Plus.